Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 34] 2021
► pp. 149–174
Traditional Dialectology has focused on phonetic, morphological and lexical variation and has paid less attention to syntactic variation. Consequently, dialectal boundaries are usually drawn employing mainly phonetic, morphological or lexical traits. In the case of Spanish this bias can easily be confirmed by the main contents of the regional linguistic atlases of Spain. The present chapter is aimed to be a complete review of the syntactic information present in these atlases. We will evaluate its actual usefulness as to the purpose of defining dialect areas inside European Spanish. Finally, after examining the main syntactic features subject to variation in Peninsular Spanish, we will also make a tentative proposal of dialect areas based on syntactic differences.