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Publication details [#58731]

Claes, Jeroen. 2014. A Cognitive Construction Grammar approach to the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish. Language Variation and Change 26 (2) : 219–246.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

Annotation

This study proposes an exploration of the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish as a proceeding bottom up language change in which the impersonal argument-structure construction is being substituted by a personal variant, permitting speakers to position themselves with respect to gender and social class.