Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases
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Ares Llop Naya
Abstract
In this chapter we show the interest of the data gathered in linguistic atlases and traditional dialectology materials in the context of the significant development of formal studies in dialect syntax. We present a case study based on almost unexplored dialects in the Central Pyrenean region with the purpose of showing how dialectal data can contribute to an in-depth knowledge of the grammar of natural languages. We present an already-tested roadmap to develop a micro-syntactic investigation that aims at providing a fine-grained description of synchronic variation in the use of negative minimizers and, at the same time, seeks to determine the formal features of such items, as well as the consequences of different feature specification for the negative concord.
Abstract
In this chapter we show the interest of the data gathered in linguistic atlases and traditional dialectology materials in the context of the significant development of formal studies in dialect syntax. We present a case study based on almost unexplored dialects in the Central Pyrenean region with the purpose of showing how dialectal data can contribute to an in-depth knowledge of the grammar of natural languages. We present an already-tested roadmap to develop a micro-syntactic investigation that aims at providing a fine-grained description of synchronic variation in the use of negative minimizers and, at the same time, seeks to determine the formal features of such items, as well as the consequences of different feature specification for the negative concord.
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
