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Chapter 5. ¿Qué che femos con el che?

Some properties of the ethical dative ‘che’ in Asturian Galician
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Abstract

This chapter is devoted to the pervasive use in Asturian Galician of a clitic token formally identical to the second person singular dative, albeit with different conditions of use and subject to very different placement restrictions. We claim that such item incorporates a ‘clusivity’ feature as an extension of the second person, compatible with its modal meaning, and that it benefits from the underspecification of the vocabulary item that also materializes the dative. We also claim that it belongs to a class different to ‘determiner-type’ clitics and ‘agreement-type’ clitics, which we deem ‘other-type.’ Despite its specificities, the chapter shows that it is not, however, a peripheric unit, inasmuch as its behavior is fully consistent with UG dictums.

Abstract

This chapter is devoted to the pervasive use in Asturian Galician of a clitic token formally identical to the second person singular dative, albeit with different conditions of use and subject to very different placement restrictions. We claim that such item incorporates a ‘clusivity’ feature as an extension of the second person, compatible with its modal meaning, and that it benefits from the underspecification of the vocabulary item that also materializes the dative. We also claim that it belongs to a class different to ‘determiner-type’ clitics and ‘agreement-type’ clitics, which we deem ‘other-type.’ Despite its specificities, the chapter shows that it is not, however, a peripheric unit, inasmuch as its behavior is fully consistent with UG dictums.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. List of contributors vii
  4. List of reviewers ix
  5. Chapter 1. Northern soul 1
  6. Chapter 2. Asturian and Asturian Spanish at the syntax-phonology interface 15
  7. Chapter 3. Semantic anchoring 45
  8. Chapter 4. Are Asturian clitics distinctly distinct? 73
  9. Chapter 5. ¿Qué che femos con el che? 93
  10. Chapter 6. Pluractional perfects in Eonavian Spanish 109
  11. Chapter 7. Middle formation and inalienability in Asturian 131
  12. Chapter 8. Negation in Asturian 151
  13. Chapter 9. Intonational form and speaker belief in Mieres Asturian polar questions 173
  14. Chapter 10. Minority language bilingualism and its role in L3 lexical acquisition 195
  15. Index 217
Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias
This chapter is in the book Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.36.05var

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. List of contributors vii
  4. List of reviewers ix
  5. Chapter 1. Northern soul 1
  6. Chapter 2. Asturian and Asturian Spanish at the syntax-phonology interface 15
  7. Chapter 3. Semantic anchoring 45
  8. Chapter 4. Are Asturian clitics distinctly distinct? 73
  9. Chapter 5. ¿Qué che femos con el che? 93
  10. Chapter 6. Pluractional perfects in Eonavian Spanish 109
  11. Chapter 7. Middle formation and inalienability in Asturian 131
  12. Chapter 8. Negation in Asturian 151
  13. Chapter 9. Intonational form and speaker belief in Mieres Asturian polar questions 173
  14. Chapter 10. Minority language bilingualism and its role in L3 lexical acquisition 195
  15. Index 217
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