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The Status of Andalusian in the Spanish-Speaking World: Is It Currently Possible for Andalusia to Have Its Own Linguistic Standardization Process?
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Méndez-Ga de Paredes, Elena; Amorós-Negre, Carla – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
This paper analyzes the status of the Andalusian variety within Spanish language pluricentricity. It offers an example of the rise of new systems of normative stratification in the traditional 'linguistic peripheries' and of how the different linguistic agents deal with the vindication of social and linguistic identities. This fact makes us treat…
Descriptors: Spanish, Geographic Regions, Language Variation, Morphology (Languages)
Lexical, Morphological and Syntactic Development in Toddlers between 16 and 30 Months Old: A Comparison across European Portuguese and Galician
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Viana, Fernanda Leopoldina; Pérez-Pereira, Miguel; Cadime, Irene; Silva, Carla; Santos, Sandra; Ribeiro, Iolanda – First Language, 2017
The main aims of this study were to investigate the relationship between the lexical size and the emergence of morphological and syntactic markers in toddlers between the ages of 16 and 30 months and to compare these results between Galician and European Portuguese. Parents of 3012 Portuguese toddlers and those of 1081 Galician toddlers completed…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphology (Languages), Toddlers, Vocabulary Development
A Sociolinguistic Study of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Two Varieties of Contemporary Spanish
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Balasch Rodriguez, Sonia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This sociolinguistic-variationist investigation sheds light on two little-studied issues concerning Spanish DOM, or variable use of a before animate "direct objects" (DOs), in vernacular language: the complex interaction of co-occurring linguistic (type of verb; definiteness, specificity, grammatical number, topicality, type and…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Spanish, Form Classes (Languages), Native Language
Estudio sociolinguistico de una variante sintactica el fenomeno "dequeismo" en el espanol canario (Sociolinguistic Study of a Syntactic Variant: The "Dequeismo" Phenomenon in Canary Islands Spanish).
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Serrano, Maria Jose – Hispania, 1998
The dequeismo phenomenon is occurring more frequently in spoken Spanish in both Spain and in Latin America. Introduction of the preposition "de" before "que" in nominal complements exploits one recourse in Spanish, namely the deictic capacity of prepositional "de" as a marker or introducer of the speaker's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Language Variation
The Great Spanish "Le-Lo" Controversy
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Roldan, Mercedes – Linguistics, 1975
The distinction between the clitics "le" and "lo" is different for Peninsular Spanish than for Latin American Spanish but is in both cases systematic. The division in Castilian Spanish is along the line of animate-inanimate. The Latin American division is between accusative and dative case. (TL)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Function Words
Actes des Journees de Linguistique (Proceedings of the Linguistics Conference) (11th, Quebec, Canada, March 20-21, 1997).
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Caouette, Claudine, Ed.; Larrivee, Pierre, Ed. – 1997
English translations of articles in French in this issue include these: "Discourse Reported in the Print Media"; "Comparison of Register in Quebec and French Speakers"; "Method of Description of Specialized Verbs in View of Machine Translation Applications"; "Dialectal Areas in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Biblical Literature, Braille, Contrastive Linguistics