Scott A Schwenter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 748142 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Scott A Schwenter |
| NOMBRES | Scott A |
| APELLIDO | Schwenter |
| FIRMA | SCHWENTER S A |
| AFILIACIONES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-3266-9556 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Wait, espera, peraí
Reanalyzing Variable Agreement with tu Using an Online Megacorpus of Brazilian Portuguese
We reanalyze the phenomenon of verbal (non)agreement with the 2SG tu in a megacorpus of Brazilian Portuguese compiled from the web. Unlike previous research, which has analyzed sociolinguistic interview data and regional differences, we examine these data with a focus on the internal linguistic factors that constrain the variability. Our analysis of 4860 tokens of tu + verb reveals that non-agreement with the 3SG verb form is by far the most comm…
Speakers' subjective evaluations of direct object pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese
Direct object pronouns show considerable variation in Brazilian Portuguese, where normative clitic pronouns compete with their tonic counterparts. However, no prior studies have investigated empirically speaker evaluations of these competing pronoun variants. We created a perception experiment of direct object pronouns in spoken Brazilian Portuguese, in order to investigate the role of attitudes and social evaluations in language variation. Resul…
A distinct aspectual analysis of predicative possession in Brazilian Portuguese
We provide an aspectual analysis of Brazilian Portuguese predicative possessives, ter ('have') NP vs. estar com ('to be with') NP, which have been analyzed as denoting permanent versus temporary possession, respectively. Data include 20th century tokens of estar com NP (n=553) and ter NP (n=2976) from Davies' Corpus do Português. These data show that both possessive constructions can occur with the same temporal/aspectual reference and possessum,…
Variable past participles in Portuguese perfect constructions
Some Portuguese verbs have two past participle forms: one regular (stem + -do ), and the other irregular (often identical to the first person singular present indicative). Per grammars, the perfect auxiliaries ter / haver take regulars, while irregulars appear with passive/adjectival ser / estar . To test these claims, we analyzed naturally-occurring data from Brazil (twentieth century) and Portugal (nineteenth and twentieth). We coded 1077 token…
Echoic and non-echoic confirming affirmative responses in spoken Brazilian Portuguese
Experimental evidence for 2SG direct object pronoun preferences in Brazilian Portuguese
We examine the competition in Brazilian Portuguese 2SG direct object pronoun expression between clitic te and tonic você (e.g. Eu te vi ~ Eu vi você). We offer data from an online forced-choice survey, analyzed using mixed-effects logistic regression, to show that dialectal subject pronoun preference (tu/você) and contrast both play a significant role in conditioning this choice. Furthermore, we find that contrast, despite its traditional treatme…
Testando o papel da referência temporal na forma do imperativo em Português Brasileiro
O imperativo em português brasileiro pode ser expresso tanto com indicativo (come!) quanto subjuntivo (coma!). Pesquisas anteriores explicam esta variação segundo a região e como mudança em progresso para o indicativo. Nossa pesquisa experimental mostra que falantes de diversas regiões compartilham uma forte preferência pela forma do subjuntivo quando o contexto discursivo referido ocorre em um futuro distante, enquanto o indicativo é favorecido …
Meaning and interaction in Spanish independent si-clauses
Discourse and Scalar Structure in Non-Canonical Negation
Prosody, Accessibility, and Sentential Negation in Brazilian Portuguese
Defaults and indeterminacy in temporal grammaticalization
Adopting a grammaticalization path perspective on the envelope of variation, that is, the range of grammatical functions along the cross-linguistic perfect-to-perfective path, and employing the variationist comparative method, we compare use of the Present Perfect and Preterit in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish to identify the default past perfective form in each dialect. The linguistic conditioning of the variability provides evidence that the Pr…
Constructions and pragmatics
Towards an Operational Notion of Subjectification
Polar meaning and “expletive” negation in approximative adverbs
In this paper we provide a synchronic and diachronic analysis of an instance of so-called “expletive” negation in the Spanish approximative adverb por poco . Synchronically, we show that this adverb, when combined with the sentence negator no , is ambiguous between ~p (“expletive”) and ~~p (“canonical”) meanings. Diachronically, we show that this ambiguity arose due to a change in the negation system of Spanish around the fifteenth century. As a …
The pragmatics of negation in Brazilian Portuguese
The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood (review)
Reviewed by: The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Spanish mood by Henk Haverkate Scott A. Schwenter The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Spanish mood. By Henk Haverkate. (Pragmatics & beyond new series 96.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. Pp. 235. ISBN 1588112926. $65.95. This book is a revised version, in English, of Henk Haverkate’s study originally published in Dutch in 1989. It consists of six chapters of very unequal length and depth,…
No and tampoco
Discourse markers and the PA/SN distinction
Many languages have two types of adversative sentence conjunctions (e.g. Spanish, German). These are normally referred to as PA and SN conjunctions. However, while PA conjunctions can be used as discourse markers (DMs) in dialogal discourse, SN conjunctions such as those found in Spanish and German cannot be used in dialogues. Thus the PA/SN distinction does not extend fully to the dialogal realm. Using data from another Spanish DM, I argue that …
Overt vs. Null Direct Objects in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese
Scott A. Schwenter, Gláucia Silva, Overt vs. Null Direct Objects in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese: A Semantic/Pragmatic Account, Hispania, Vol. 85, No. 3, Special Portuguese Issue (Sep., 2002), pp. 577-586
Expectations and (in)sufficiency
Though the study of conditional sentences in terms of their meanings and functions has expanded rapidly over the past twenty years, analyses have not often dealt with noncanonical conditional constructions, focusing instead on canonical conditionals like those marked by if in English. This paper attempts to partially redress this bias by examining the meaning and function of a noncanonical conditional construction in Spanish: the como conditional…
Viewpoints and polysemy
Viewpoints and polysemy
Absolute and Relative Scalar Particles in Spanish and Hindi
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Invoking scalarity
The discourse contexts are analyzed in which clause-internal in fact developed pragmaticalized meanings and came to invoke scalarity in two domains: epistemic sentence adverb (IPAdv), and additive discourse marker (DM). In both these uses, in fact tightens word to world fit (Powell 1992): the world of epistemic belief in the case of the IPAdv, the world of evaluative, rhetorical perspective in the case of the DM. The analysis therefore provides f…
The pragmatics of negation in Brazilian Portuguese
Defaults and indeterminacy in temporal grammaticalization
Adopting a grammaticalization path perspective on the envelope of variation, that is, the range of grammatical functions along the cross-linguistic perfect-to-perfective path, and employing the variationist comparative method, we compare use of the Present Perfect and Preterit in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish to identify the default past perfective form in each dialect. The linguistic conditioning of the variability provides evidence that the Pr…
Some reflections on o sea
This paper examines the Spanish discourse marker o sea; which consists of the preposition o 'or' and sea, the third person singular, present subjunctive form of the verb ser 'to be'. The uses of o sea are grouped into two broad classes: connective and epistemic. Connective uses guide hearers to the correct semantic interpretation between propositions. Epistemic uses mark speakers' degree of commitment to what they say, increasing the modal conten…
Invoking scalarity
The discourse contexts are analyzed in which clause-internal in fact developed pragmaticalized meanings and came to invoke scalarity in two domains: epistemic sentence adverb (IPAdv), and additive discourse marker (DM). In both these uses, in fact tightens word to world fit (Powell 1992): the world of epistemic belief in the case of the IPAdv, the world of evaluative, rhetorical perspective in the case of the DM. The analysis therefore provides f…
No and tampoco
Discourse markers and the PA/SN distinction
Many languages have two types of adversative sentence conjunctions (e.g. Spanish, German). These are normally referred to as PA and SN conjunctions. However, while PA conjunctions can be used as discourse markers (DMs) in dialogal discourse, SN conjunctions such as those found in Spanish and German cannot be used in dialogues. Thus the PA/SN distinction does not extend fully to the dialogal realm. Using data from another Spanish DM, I argue that …
Constructions and pragmatics
Meaning and interaction in Spanish independent si-clauses
Overt vs. Null Direct Objects in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese
Scott A. Schwenter, Gláucia Silva, Overt vs. Null Direct Objects in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese: A Semantic/Pragmatic Account, Hispania, Vol. 85, No. 3, Special Portuguese Issue (Sep., 2002), pp. 577-586
"Hot news" and the grammaticalization of perfects
L'A. examine la categories des parfaits en anglais et en espagnol. D'un point de vue synchronique, l'usage des hot news a une fonction discursive differente des autres utilisations du parfait: il met l'accent sur la signification et le caractere recent de l'evenement, mais pas sur ses resultats presents. D'un point de vue diachronique, l'usage des hot news parait plus tardivement que les autres utilisations du parfait
Variable past participles in Portuguese perfect constructions
Some Portuguese verbs have two past participle forms: one regular (stem + -do ), and the other irregular (often identical to the first person singular present indicative). Per grammars, the perfect auxiliaries ter / haver take regulars, while irregulars appear with passive/adjectival ser / estar . To test these claims, we analyzed naturally-occurring data from Brazil (twentieth century) and Portugal (nineteenth and twentieth). We coded 1077 token…
Polar meaning and “expletive” negation in approximative adverbs
In this paper we provide a synchronic and diachronic analysis of an instance of so-called “expletive” negation in the Spanish approximative adverb por poco . Synchronically, we show that this adverb, when combined with the sentence negator no , is ambiguous between ~p (“expletive”) and ~~p (“canonical”) meanings. Diachronically, we show that this ambiguity arose due to a change in the negation system of Spanish around the fifteenth century. As a …
Expectations and (in)sufficiency
Though the study of conditional sentences in terms of their meanings and functions has expanded rapidly over the past twenty years, analyses have not often dealt with noncanonical conditional constructions, focusing instead on canonical conditionals like those marked by if in English. This paper attempts to partially redress this bias by examining the meaning and function of a noncanonical conditional construction in Spanish: the como conditional…
Echoic and non-echoic confirming affirmative responses in spoken Brazilian Portuguese
Experimental evidence for 2SG direct object pronoun preferences in Brazilian Portuguese
We examine the competition in Brazilian Portuguese 2SG direct object pronoun expression between clitic te and tonic você (e.g. Eu te vi ~ Eu vi você). We offer data from an online forced-choice survey, analyzed using mixed-effects logistic regression, to show that dialectal subject pronoun preference (tu/você) and contrast both play a significant role in conditioning this choice. Furthermore, we find that contrast, despite its traditional treatme…
The Grammaticalization of an Anterior in Progress
This paper investigates the current grammaticalization of the Spanish Present Perfect, an anterior grammaticalizing to perfective, in the dialect of Alicante, Spain. The evidence offered provides insight into this grammaticalization process, and into the development of hodiernal tenses (cf. Dahl 1984). This change results from inferences which extend the functions of the anterior, and also from the gram's absorption of the temporal context with w…
Tener + past Participle
"Hot news" and the grammaticalization of perfects
L'A. examine la categories des parfaits en anglais et en espagnol. D'un point de vue synchronique, l'usage des hot news a une fonction discursive differente des autres utilisations du parfait: il met l'accent sur la signification et le caractere recent de l'evenement, mais pas sur ses resultats presents. D'un point de vue diachronique, l'usage des hot news parait plus tardivement que les autres utilisations du parfait
Some reflections on o sea
This paper examines the Spanish discourse marker o sea; which consists of the preposition o 'or' and sea, the third person singular, present subjunctive form of the verb ser 'to be'. The uses of o sea are grouped into two broad classes: connective and epistemic. Connective uses guide hearers to the correct semantic interpretation between propositions. Epistemic uses mark speakers' degree of commitment to what they say, increasing the modal conten…
On Conditionals Again
Viewpoints and polysemy
Viewpoints and polysemy
Absolute and Relative Scalar Particles in Spanish and Hindi
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Invoking scalarity
The discourse contexts are analyzed in which clause-internal in fact developed pragmaticalized meanings and came to invoke scalarity in two domains: epistemic sentence adverb (IPAdv), and additive discourse marker (DM). In both these uses, in fact tightens word to world fit (Powell 1992): the world of epistemic belief in the case of the IPAdv, the world of evaluative, rhetorical perspective in the case of the DM. The analysis therefore provides f…
Adverbs of Degree in Dutch and Related Languages
Expectations and (in)sufficiency
Though the study of conditional sentences in terms of their meanings and functions has expanded rapidly over the past twenty years, analyses have not often dealt with noncanonical conditional constructions, focusing instead on canonical conditionals like those marked by if in English. This paper attempts to partially redress this bias by examining the meaning and function of a noncanonical conditional construction in Spanish: the como conditional…
Discourse markers and the PA/SN distinction
Many languages have two types of adversative sentence conjunctions (e.g. Spanish, German). These are normally referred to as PA and SN conjunctions. However, while PA conjunctions can be used as discourse markers (DMs) in dialogal discourse, SN conjunctions such as those found in Spanish and German cannot be used in dialogues. Thus the PA/SN distinction does not extend fully to the dialogal realm. Using data from another Spanish DM, I argue that …
Overt vs. Null Direct Objects in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese
Scott A. Schwenter, Gláucia Silva, Overt vs. Null Direct Objects in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese: A Semantic/Pragmatic Account, Hispania, Vol. 85, No. 3, Special Portuguese Issue (Sep., 2002), pp. 577-586
No and tampoco
The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood (review)
Reviewed by: The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Spanish mood by Henk Haverkate Scott A. Schwenter The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Spanish mood. By Henk Haverkate. (Pragmatics & beyond new series 96.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. Pp. 235. ISBN 1588112926. $65.95. This book is a revised version, in English, of Henk Haverkate’s study originally published in Dutch in 1989. It consists of six chapters of very unequal length and depth,…
Towards an Operational Notion of Subjectification
Polar meaning and “expletive” negation in approximative adverbs
In this paper we provide a synchronic and diachronic analysis of an instance of so-called “expletive” negation in the Spanish approximative adverb por poco . Synchronically, we show that this adverb, when combined with the sentence negator no , is ambiguous between ~p (“expletive”) and ~~p (“canonical”) meanings. Diachronically, we show that this ambiguity arose due to a change in the negation system of Spanish around the fifteenth century. As a …
The pragmatics of negation in Brazilian Portuguese
Prosody, Accessibility, and Sentential Negation in Brazilian Portuguese
Defaults and indeterminacy in temporal grammaticalization
Adopting a grammaticalization path perspective on the envelope of variation, that is, the range of grammatical functions along the cross-linguistic perfect-to-perfective path, and employing the variationist comparative method, we compare use of the Present Perfect and Preterit in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish to identify the default past perfective form in each dialect. The linguistic conditioning of the variability provides evidence that the Pr…
Constructions and pragmatics
Discourse and Scalar Structure in Non-Canonical Negation
Meaning and interaction in Spanish independent si-clauses
Experimental evidence for 2SG direct object pronoun preferences in Brazilian Portuguese
We examine the competition in Brazilian Portuguese 2SG direct object pronoun expression between clitic te and tonic você (e.g. Eu te vi ~ Eu vi você). We offer data from an online forced-choice survey, analyzed using mixed-effects logistic regression, to show that dialectal subject pronoun preference (tu/você) and contrast both play a significant role in conditioning this choice. Furthermore, we find that contrast, despite its traditional treatme…
Testando o papel da referência temporal na forma do imperativo em Português Brasileiro
O imperativo em português brasileiro pode ser expresso tanto com indicativo (come!) quanto subjuntivo (coma!). Pesquisas anteriores explicam esta variação segundo a região e como mudança em progresso para o indicativo. Nossa pesquisa experimental mostra que falantes de diversas regiões compartilham uma forte preferência pela forma do subjuntivo quando o contexto discursivo referido ocorre em um futuro distante, enquanto o indicativo é favorecido …
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