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Early acquisition of syntactic variation: Lexical conditioning of Spanish variable clitic placement

open access: yes, 2023
This paper examines how children acquire Spanish variable clitic placement (VCP), a lexically conditioned phenomenon whereby clitics may precede or follow complex verb phrases.
Requena, Pablo E.
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The International Workshop of Syntactic Variation of Catalan and Spanish Dialects, 26-28 June 2013, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

open access: yesIsogloss, 2014
This is a review of the papers presented at the "International Workshop of Syntactic Variation of Catalan and Spanish Dialects" (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 26-28, 2013).
Núria Aloy   +3 more
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Concessive scalar particles: Symmetric vs. non-symmetric alternatives. The case of Spanish siquiera

open access: yesGlossa, 2023
Polarity items have been analyzed as existential quantifiers that introduce alternatives into the semantic derivation (Krifka 1991; 1995; Kratzer & Shimoyama 2002; Chierchia 2013).
Elizabeth Heredia Murillo   +1 more
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Changing frequencies in a constructional landscape: the case of two epistemic constructions in Spanish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Many studies on Spanish verbal periphrases either discuss the general features of the syntactic category or analyse the semantic and functional differences between specific members of that category.
Nieuwenhuijsen, D.   +2 more
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Same people, different outcomes: the sociolinguistic profile of three language changes in the history of Spanish. A corpus-based approach

open access: yes, 2023
Within the framework of Historical Sociolinguistics and using a corpus of ego-documents written by Spaniards from different social backgrounds, this study analyses the sociolinguistic profiles of three phenomena of variation and change that took place in
José Luis Blas Arroyo   +1 more
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A formal analysis of lip-pointing in Latin-American Spanish

open access: yesIsogloss, 2016
The present research focuses on the understudied interface between syntax and gesture within the emerging field of the dialectal syntax of Spanish.  In particular, a formal analysis of so-called lip-pointing in various Latin-American varieties of Spanish
Ivan Ortega-Santos
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Applying spatio-temporal models to assess variations across health care areas and regions: Lessons from the decentralized Spanish National Health System.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
ObjectiveTo illustrate the ability of hierarchical Bayesian spatio-temporal models in capturing different geo-temporal structures in order to explain hospital risk variations using three different conditions: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI ...
Julián Librero   +5 more
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Estructuras focalizadoras em español y portugués

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2001
The present study, based in Sedano's (1994) methodology and results, analyses the variation between the pseudocleft clauses (SH) and the clauses with the focalizing verb ser (SF) found in Spanish and Portuguese literary works with the purpose of ...
Mercedes Sedano
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Psycholinguistic Evidence for Incipient Language Change in Mexican Spanish: The Extension of Differential Object Marking

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Spanish marks animate and specific direct objects overtly with the preposition a, an instance of Differential Object Marking (DOM). However, in some varieties of Spanish, DOM is advancing to inanimate objects.
Begoña Arechabaleta Regulez   +1 more
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Subject expression in a Southeastern U.S. Mexican community

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019
Through an analysis of immigrant Spanish in Georgia, potential contact-induced language change is investigated through the lens of subject pronoun expression.
Philip Limerick
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