Chapter 4. Variation and pragmatic enrichment
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Christina García
Abstract
Dar + gerund is a periphrastic benefactive found in the Spanish of highland Ecuador and southern Colombia. Prior research has focused on the construction’s origin, syntactic constraints, and politeness: the present study examines the pragmatic restrictions of dar + gerund declaratives. Using native speaker intuitions and heuristics from previous studies, I show that the most significant implication present is that it is not the sole responsibility of the agent to do the task. Thus, Daniel dio lavando la ropa is felicitous if Daniel is part of a group of people responsible for washing the clothes or if it was someone else’s responsibility entirely, but infelicitous if Daniel was solely responsible.
Abstract
Dar + gerund is a periphrastic benefactive found in the Spanish of highland Ecuador and southern Colombia. Prior research has focused on the construction’s origin, syntactic constraints, and politeness: the present study examines the pragmatic restrictions of dar + gerund declaratives. Using native speaker intuitions and heuristics from previous studies, I show that the most significant implication present is that it is not the sole responsibility of the agent to do the task. Thus, Daniel dio lavando la ropa is felicitous if Daniel is part of a group of people responsible for washing the clothes or if it was someone else’s responsibility entirely, but infelicitous if Daniel was solely responsible.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction. Contemporary research on Latin American Spanish dialectology 1
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Section I. Aspects of morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation
- Chapter 1. Between vos and usted 11
- Chapter 2. “Feel really Uruguayan” 29
- Chapter 3. Variable constraints on se lo(s) in Mexican Spanish 47
- Chapter 4. Variation and pragmatic enrichment 69
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Section II. Production, perception and sound system contact-driven restructuring
- Chapter 5. Social perception of the variable realization of /tʃ/ in Chile 97
- Chapter 6. Complex attitudes towards two sociolinguistic variables and their social meanings 125
- Chapter 7. Declarative intonation in four Afro-Hispanic varieties 155
- Chapter 8. ‘En esta petsa, este anio’ 181
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Section III. Language ideologies, business and pedagogical implications
- Chapter 9. Español neutro and marketing in Latin American and U.S. audiovisual media 207
- Chapter 10. Language policy and education in Peru 227
- Chapter 11. Twenty years of Guaraní-Spanish bilingual education in Paraguay 241
- Chapter 12. Bad grammar 275
- Index 289
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction. Contemporary research on Latin American Spanish dialectology 1
-
Section I. Aspects of morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation
- Chapter 1. Between vos and usted 11
- Chapter 2. “Feel really Uruguayan” 29
- Chapter 3. Variable constraints on se lo(s) in Mexican Spanish 47
- Chapter 4. Variation and pragmatic enrichment 69
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Section II. Production, perception and sound system contact-driven restructuring
- Chapter 5. Social perception of the variable realization of /tʃ/ in Chile 97
- Chapter 6. Complex attitudes towards two sociolinguistic variables and their social meanings 125
- Chapter 7. Declarative intonation in four Afro-Hispanic varieties 155
- Chapter 8. ‘En esta petsa, este anio’ 181
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Section III. Language ideologies, business and pedagogical implications
- Chapter 9. Español neutro and marketing in Latin American and U.S. audiovisual media 207
- Chapter 10. Language policy and education in Peru 227
- Chapter 11. Twenty years of Guaraní-Spanish bilingual education in Paraguay 241
- Chapter 12. Bad grammar 275
- Index 289
