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Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias, 2022
This chapter deals with two periphrastic constructions that consist of a per- fect participle and... more This chapter deals with two periphrastic constructions that consist of a per-
fect participle and an in ected form of the verb tener ‘have’ or llevar ‘carry’ in Eonavian Spanish (EoS), which are used to convey perfect meanings and they re- quire a form of iteration or plurality on the event described. ese constructions are monoclausal and behave like fully grammaticalized auxiliary constructions, but they are restricted in unexpected ways. e description is complemented
by a cross-linguistic comparison of super cially similar constructions in neigh- bouring Romance varieties. e nal part of the chapter considers the extent to which similar constructions in the Galician dialect might explain the properties observed in EoS, concluding that they are independent systems.
This paper examines the structural properties underlying the distribution and interpretation of t... more This paper examines the structural properties underlying the distribution and interpretation of two types of deverbal nouns in Spanish: miento nominals (e.g. hundimiento 'the sinking') and do/da nominals (e.g. secado 'the drying'); the first may combine with unaccusatives and verbs that enter the causative alternation, targeting the anticausative reading. By contrast, the latter type may select unergatives and the so-called incremental theme verbs, yielding a causative reading. Based on empirical evidence, I argue that the distributional and interpretive differences observed follow from the fact that these nominalizers are sensitive to different syntactic configurations in the event domain: building on Ramchand's decompositional analysis, I propose that the event structure of do/da nominals identifies a sequence [init i , proc i ], where subjects are interpreted as thematic Actors , and I show how this correlates with the absence of miento and the impossibility of reflexive readings (e.g. lavado 'the washing *of oneself /*by itself ').
The imperfect subjunctive form –ra found in the variety of Spanish spoken between the Eo and Navi... more The imperfect subjunctive form –ra found in the variety of Spanish spoken between the Eo and Navia rivers in Asturias, has not only the modal value observed in Standard Peninsular Spanish (Ojalá lloviera ‘I wish it rained’), but it may also carry temporal values such as pluperfect (Cuando llegué yo, Ana ya saliera ‘by the time I arrived, Ana had already left’) and simple past ( (Las flores) me las regalara mi abuela ‘(the flowers) my grandmother gave them to me’). This paper offers a (tentative) formal analysis of the licensing conditions of –ra in affirmative contexts in this variety, using the nanosyntactic apparatus (Starke 2005). The hypothesis based on features is presented in combination with Ojea’s (2005) work on asertiveness and mood selection: two main factors, one syntactic (subordination) and one semantic (level of assertiveness), are examined to identify the number and order of features, as well as their semantic value (modal, pluperfect, and deictic). Evidence from spontaneous speech as well as data from an online survey completed by 45 Eonavians conform the empirical basis of the study. The analysis predicts that the difference between Standard and Eonavian Spanish follows from the number of features that –ra lexicalizes in each variety, as illustrated in concrete examples.
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The dissociation between grammatical phenomena and lexical-semantic aspects of language in early ... more The dissociation between grammatical phenomena and lexical-semantic aspects of language in early childhood has been manifested by differences in language processing as well as in late L1 learning (Curtis, 1988), and the fact that neither the acquisition of native morphosyntax nor the learning of L2 morphosyntax is completely successful after a certain phase of brain maturation, is sufficient to bring the notion of irreversibility up to date, in the framework of a theory of linguistic competence in the Chomskyan sense. It is only in this context is Lenneberg’s CPH still plausible within a theory of grammar acquisition.
Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias, 2022
This chapter deals with two periphrastic constructions that consist of a per- fect participle and... more This chapter deals with two periphrastic constructions that consist of a per-
fect participle and an in ected form of the verb tener ‘have’ or llevar ‘carry’ in Eonavian Spanish (EoS), which are used to convey perfect meanings and they re- quire a form of iteration or plurality on the event described. ese constructions are monoclausal and behave like fully grammaticalized auxiliary constructions, but they are restricted in unexpected ways. e description is complemented
by a cross-linguistic comparison of super cially similar constructions in neigh- bouring Romance varieties. e nal part of the chapter considers the extent to which similar constructions in the Galician dialect might explain the properties observed in EoS, concluding that they are independent systems.
This paper examines the structural properties underlying the distribution and interpretation of t... more This paper examines the structural properties underlying the distribution and interpretation of two types of deverbal nouns in Spanish: miento nominals (e.g. hundimiento 'the sinking') and do/da nominals (e.g. secado 'the drying'); the first may combine with unaccusatives and verbs that enter the causative alternation, targeting the anticausative reading. By contrast, the latter type may select unergatives and the so-called incremental theme verbs, yielding a causative reading. Based on empirical evidence, I argue that the distributional and interpretive differences observed follow from the fact that these nominalizers are sensitive to different syntactic configurations in the event domain: building on Ramchand's decompositional analysis, I propose that the event structure of do/da nominals identifies a sequence [init i , proc i ], where subjects are interpreted as thematic Actors , and I show how this correlates with the absence of miento and the impossibility of reflexive readings (e.g. lavado 'the washing *of oneself /*by itself ').
The imperfect subjunctive form –ra found in the variety of Spanish spoken between the Eo and Navi... more The imperfect subjunctive form –ra found in the variety of Spanish spoken between the Eo and Navia rivers in Asturias, has not only the modal value observed in Standard Peninsular Spanish (Ojalá lloviera ‘I wish it rained’), but it may also carry temporal values such as pluperfect (Cuando llegué yo, Ana ya saliera ‘by the time I arrived, Ana had already left’) and simple past ( (Las flores) me las regalara mi abuela ‘(the flowers) my grandmother gave them to me’). This paper offers a (tentative) formal analysis of the licensing conditions of –ra in affirmative contexts in this variety, using the nanosyntactic apparatus (Starke 2005). The hypothesis based on features is presented in combination with Ojea’s (2005) work on asertiveness and mood selection: two main factors, one syntactic (subordination) and one semantic (level of assertiveness), are examined to identify the number and order of features, as well as their semantic value (modal, pluperfect, and deictic). Evidence from spontaneous speech as well as data from an online survey completed by 45 Eonavians conform the empirical basis of the study. The analysis predicts that the difference between Standard and Eonavian Spanish follows from the number of features that –ra lexicalizes in each variety, as illustrated in concrete examples.
The dissociation between grammatical phenomena and lexical-semantic aspects of language in early ... more The dissociation between grammatical phenomena and lexical-semantic aspects of language in early childhood has been manifested by differences in language processing as well as in late L1 learning (Curtis, 1988), and the fact that neither the acquisition of native morphosyntax nor the learning of L2 morphosyntax is completely successful after a certain phase of brain maturation, is sufficient to bring the notion of irreversibility up to date, in the framework of a theory of linguistic competence in the Chomskyan sense. It is only in this context is Lenneberg’s CPH still plausible within a theory of grammar acquisition.