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Peer reviewedBustamante-Lopez, Isabel; Nina-Murcia, Mercedes – Hispania, 1995
Northern Andean Spanish (NAS) possesses a complex system of structures used in impositive speech. NAS speakers choose from several grammatical possibilities when asking their interlocutor to act. This article summarizes the grammatical possibilities and explains how the different forms are used to indicate different levels of politeness. (15…
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