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Publication details [#48568]

Schwenter, Scott A. and Rena Torres Cacoullos. 2008. Constructions and pragmatics: Variable middle marking in Spanish subir(se) ‘go up’ and bajar(se) ‘go down’. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (8) : 1455–1477.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammar1 | markedness | pragmatics | verb of motion

Language as a subject

Spanish, Mexican | Spanish, Peninsular

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Adopting the variationist method, this paper explores aspectual and pragmatic analyses of se-marking in corpora of spoken and written Mexican and Peninsular Spanish. A usage-based constructions perspective allows to dispense with a grammar–pragmatics dichotomy.