Article published in:
Sociolinguistic patterns and processes of convergence and divergence in SpanishEdited by Isabel Molina Martos, Florentino Paredes García and Ana M. Cestero Mancera
[Spanish in Context 17:2] 2020
► pp. 273–293
The agreement of existential haber in three varieties of spoken Spanish
A contrastive analysis
M.ª Begoña Gómez Devís | Universitat de València
José Ramón Gómez Molina | Universitat de València
This paper aims to present one of the most relevant linguistic phenomena of spoken Spanish on both sides of the
Atlantic. The singular/plural forms of the verb haber with existential meaning have received considerable
attention due to the fact that it is a linguistic variable that changes according to the variety of Spanish that is used. We
report the findings from the research carried out within three speech communities: Valencia, Las Palmas and Mexico City, analysing
the internal and external factors that may explain this linguistic variation. For this study we have selected these communities
because all the data have been obtained according to the guidelines proposed in the PRESEEA (Project for the Sociolinguistic Study
of Spanish from Spain and from America). The results are the product of rigorous statistical analysis and allow us to illustrate
the processes of convergence or divergence.
Keywords: syntactic variation, verb haber
, varieties of spoken Spanish, convergence, divergence
Published online: 01 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00059.gom
https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00059.gom
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