Publications

Publication details [#3599]

Garcia, Erica C. and Ricardo Otheguy. 1978. Explaining dialectal variation: A test for linguistic theory. Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists/Actes du Congrès International des Linguistes 12 : 608–611.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | dialect2 | language change | pronoun | variability

Language as a subject

Spanish

Annotation

Synchronic variation is said to be the first stage in processes of diachronic change. This is exemplified by trying to explain, with reference to contexts and strategies, the different uses of the Spanish pronouns 'le' and 'lo'.