Chapter published in:
Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking worldEdited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 29] 2020
► pp. 11–32
Chapter 1Cross-dialectal productivity of the Spanish subjunctive in
nominal clause complements
Scott A. Schwenter | The Ohio State University
Mark Hoff | Universiteit Gent
We performed a large-scale corpus study of the
subjunctive across Argentine, Mexican, and Peninsular Spanish, in
order to determine possible differences in productivity across
dialects. Our data (N = 6,822) from the
web/dialects section of Davies’
(2016–)
Corpus del Español were
collected through random sampling of 22 matrix verb governors. All
three dialects were significantly different from one another in
type:token ratio, whereas only Spain differed from the others in
terms of hapax legomena:type ratio. Furthermore,
only eight verbs showed the same behavior across all dialects.
Subjunctive productivity thus varies by both dialect and governor,
thereby revealing the critical importance of both inter- and
intra-dialectal variation for the correct analysis of
morphosyntactic phenomena. The conditioning of the variation across
dialects, nevertheless, was similar: mixed-effects logistic
regression in R revealed that negated governors and cases of
non-coreferentiality between main and subordinate clause subjects
select significantly more subjunctive.
Keywords: subjunctive, nominal clauses, productivity, type:token ratio, variation
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Previous literature
- 2.1The Spanish subjunctive
- 2.2Morphological productivity
- 3.Research questions and hypotheses
- 4.Methods
- 5.Results
- 6.Discussion and conclusions
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Notes -
References
Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.29.01sch
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.29.01sch
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