Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues
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Mar Massanell i Messalles
Abstract
Traditional linguistic atlases are not designed to collect data about syntactic variation. Nonetheless, it is possible to obtain from them information about particular syntactic issues, as I exemplify with the Atles Lingüístic del Domini Català. This atlas offers evidence of the survival of the perfect auxiliary ésser ‘to be’ in some current Catalan varieties in the face of general replacement by haver ‘to have’. These examples are discussed in the context of the changes that Catalan has undergone since the Middle Ages. We see that the residual presence of ésser varies from region to region and reflects different processes. However, in order to be precise it will be necessary to undertake a further data collection specifically focused on auxiliary selection.
Abstract
Traditional linguistic atlases are not designed to collect data about syntactic variation. Nonetheless, it is possible to obtain from them information about particular syntactic issues, as I exemplify with the Atles Lingüístic del Domini Català. This atlas offers evidence of the survival of the perfect auxiliary ésser ‘to be’ in some current Catalan varieties in the face of general replacement by haver ‘to have’. These examples are discussed in the context of the changes that Catalan has undergone since the Middle Ages. We see that the residual presence of ésser varies from region to region and reflects different processes. However, in order to be precise it will be necessary to undertake a further data collection specifically focused on auxiliary selection.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Section I. Dialectology
- Chapter 1. The syntactic tradition in the Spanish linguistic atlases 15
- Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues 35
- Chapter 3. The negative expressions in three dialectal repertoires 77
- Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases 109
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Section II. Current perspectives on variation
- Chapter 5. Syntactic features and dialect areas in European Spanish 149
- Chapter 6. Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages 175
- Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination 203
- Chapter 8. Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish 225
- Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh -in-situ 263
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Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
- Chapter 10. ASinEs 297
- Chapter 11. The Corpus del español del siglo XXI ( CORPES XXI ) 319
- Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation 347
- Language index 381
- Subject index 383
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Section I. Dialectology
- Chapter 1. The syntactic tradition in the Spanish linguistic atlases 15
- Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues 35
- Chapter 3. The negative expressions in three dialectal repertoires 77
- Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases 109
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Section II. Current perspectives on variation
- Chapter 5. Syntactic features and dialect areas in European Spanish 149
- Chapter 6. Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages 175
- Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination 203
- Chapter 8. Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish 225
- Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh -in-situ 263
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Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
- Chapter 10. ASinEs 297
- Chapter 11. The Corpus del español del siglo XXI ( CORPES XXI ) 319
- Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation 347
- Language index 381
- Subject index 383
