Jessi Elana Aaron
Biographic Data
| ID | 745549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessi Elana Aaron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessi Elana |
| FAMILY NAME | Aaron |
| SIGNATURE | AARON J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6054-9319 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Quantifying transitivity: Uncovering relations of gender and power
Transitivity has come to be recognized as a promising heuristic tool for uncovering implicit ideologies in a wide range of areas. Though it has been used to explore worldviews in several kinds of discourse, nearly all have relied solely on qualitative analyses. Statistical analysis can offer a fuller understanding of past societies. This study applies a gradient, discourse-based understanding of transitivity, which lends itself nicely to corpus-b…
The road already traveled: Constructional analogy in lexico-syntactic change
Usage-based models of language have proposed a dynamic, organized system based on analogy, or the recognition of similarity. The potential role of analogy between similar forms or constructions, however, is not often discussed. If we aim to illustrate grammaticalization and other diachronic processes not through one construction at a time — but by quantitatively assessing the relationship between constructions — we may better address the role of …
Lone English-origin nouns in Spanish: The precedence of community norms
This paper offers an examination of morphosyntactic factors that are generally understood to measure grammatical integration—and therefore used to help determine the status of other-language-origin nouns as borrowings or code-switches—through the lens of discourse, semantics, and lexical patterns. A total of 820 lone English-origin nouns surrounded by otherwise Spanish discourse are compared to Spanish and English nouns from the recorded speech o…
A Certain Future: Epistemicity, Prediction, and Assertion in Iberian Spanish Future Expression
The choice of future construction in Romance languages with variable expression is complex, and several factors have been shown or hypothesized to influence this choice (e.g. Aaron 2006, 2010 and Poplack & Malvar 2007). One factor stands out time and time again, though scholars do not always associate it with the same form: certainty. Using corpus-based quantitative methods, the role of certainty in Iberian Spanish future form variation is examin…
Getting closer: Codification of subjective semantic prosody in Spanish continuative aspect
The syntactic correlates of the diachronic process of subjectification within grammatical constructions, unlike that of discourse markers and connectives, do not include a cancellation of syntax. This can make the identification of subjectification within some grammaticalization processes difficult to identify. Pairs of purportedly synonymous constructions, such as continuative aspectual markers in Spanish, offer an ideal site to explore how cert…
Pushing the envelope: Looking beyond the variable context
However the variable context is defined, it is standard variationist practice to exclude tokens outside this context from further quantitative analyses. The role of occurrences of forms in contexts that lie outside the shared space of grammaticizing constructions in variation, ranging from highly infrequent occurrences to vast and diverse territories, has yet to be adequately explored. Spanish Synthetic Future (SF) in epistemic contexts does not …
Coming back to life: From indicator to stereotype and a strange story of frequency1
In the history of Spanish there are five forms, originally from the same lexical item, co-existing: así, asín, ansí, asina, and ansina, all meaning 'like that'. Standard Modern Spanish includes only one of these: así. This is not the case, however, in New Mexican Spanish. This corpus-based study examines the patterns of synchronic variation in New Mexican Spanish, as well as the near death and transformed rebirth of forms other than standard así …
Quantitative measures of subjectification: A variationist study of Spanish salir(se)
By confronting variable use, the variationist method can reveal patterns of subjectification of grammatical morphemes. Applying this method to the analysis of salir(se) ‘go out’ variation in Mexican Spanish oral data, we conclude that subjectification is manifested structurally in the tendency for middle-marked salirse to co-occur with first-person singular or referents close to the speaker, positive polarity and the past tense. Further comparati…
“ So respetamos un tradición del uno al otro”: So and entonces in New Mexican bilingual discourse
This paper examines the use of two discourse markers, English-origin so and Spanish-origin entonces , in New Mexican bilingual speech. Both forms appear in the mixed speech and in the otherwise monolingual English and monolingual Spanish of bilingual speakers in New Mexico. Through a quantitative examination of the 413 uses of so ( n =289) and entonces ( n =124) in a 204,000-word corpus, it is found that both perform the same discourse functions …
The gendered use of salirse in Mexican Spanish: Si me salía yo con las amigas, se enojaba
It has been claimed that women and men use language quite differently in social interaction. Combining a functional and cognitive approach to grammar, this article explores the ways in which men and women use the optional pronominal form of the Spanish verb salir(se) ‘to leave’ in Mexican Spanish. It is found that women use the pronominal form notably more than men, and that, diachronically, this form has traditionally been applied to women's beh…
Bare English-origin nouns in Spanish: Rates, constraints, and discourse functions
We test the hypothesis that single other-language-origin words are nonce loans (Sankoff, Poplack, & Vanniarajan, 1990) as opposed to code-switches in a corpus-based study of English-origin nouns occurring spontaneously in New Mexican Spanish discourse. The object of study is determinerless nouns, whose status is superficially ambiguous. The study shows that, even with typologically similar languages, variable rule analysis can reveal details of t…
Pushing the envelope: Looking beyond the variable context
However the variable context is defined, it is standard variationist practice to exclude tokens outside this context from further quantitative analyses. The role of occurrences of forms in contexts that lie outside the shared space of grammaticizing constructions in variation, ranging from highly infrequent occurrences to vast and diverse territories, has yet to be adequately explored. Spanish Synthetic Future (SF) in epistemic contexts does not …
Quantitative measures of subjectification: A variationist study of Spanish salir(se)
By confronting variable use, the variationist method can reveal patterns of subjectification of grammatical morphemes. Applying this method to the analysis of salir(se) ‘go out’ variation in Mexican Spanish oral data, we conclude that subjectification is manifested structurally in the tendency for middle-marked salirse to co-occur with first-person singular or referents close to the speaker, positive polarity and the past tense. Further comparati…
The gendered use of salirse in Mexican Spanish: Si me salía yo con las amigas, se enojaba
It has been claimed that women and men use language quite differently in social interaction. Combining a functional and cognitive approach to grammar, this article explores the ways in which men and women use the optional pronominal form of the Spanish verb salir(se) ‘to leave’ in Mexican Spanish. It is found that women use the pronominal form notably more than men, and that, diachronically, this form has traditionally been applied to women's beh…
Bare English-origin nouns in Spanish: Rates, constraints, and discourse functions
We test the hypothesis that single other-language-origin words are nonce loans (Sankoff, Poplack, & Vanniarajan, 1990) as opposed to code-switches in a corpus-based study of English-origin nouns occurring spontaneously in New Mexican Spanish discourse. The object of study is determinerless nouns, whose status is superficially ambiguous. The study shows that, even with typologically similar languages, variable rule analysis can reveal details of t…
Bare English-origin nouns in Spanish: Rates, constraints, and discourse functions
We test the hypothesis that single other-language-origin words are nonce loans (Sankoff, Poplack, & Vanniarajan, 1990) as opposed to code-switches in a corpus-based study of English-origin nouns occurring spontaneously in New Mexican Spanish discourse. The object of study is determinerless nouns, whose status is superficially ambiguous. The study shows that, even with typologically similar languages, variable rule analysis can reveal details of t…
“ So respetamos un tradición del uno al otro”: So and entonces in New Mexican bilingual discourse
This paper examines the use of two discourse markers, English-origin so and Spanish-origin entonces , in New Mexican bilingual speech. Both forms appear in the mixed speech and in the otherwise monolingual English and monolingual Spanish of bilingual speakers in New Mexico. Through a quantitative examination of the 413 uses of so ( n =289) and entonces ( n =124) in a 204,000-word corpus, it is found that both perform the same discourse functions …
The gendered use of salirse in Mexican Spanish: Si me salía yo con las amigas, se enojaba
It has been claimed that women and men use language quite differently in social interaction. Combining a functional and cognitive approach to grammar, this article explores the ways in which men and women use the optional pronominal form of the Spanish verb salir(se) ‘to leave’ in Mexican Spanish. It is found that women use the pronominal form notably more than men, and that, diachronically, this form has traditionally been applied to women's beh…
Quantitative measures of subjectification: A variationist study of Spanish salir(se)
By confronting variable use, the variationist method can reveal patterns of subjectification of grammatical morphemes. Applying this method to the analysis of salir(se) ‘go out’ variation in Mexican Spanish oral data, we conclude that subjectification is manifested structurally in the tendency for middle-marked salirse to co-occur with first-person singular or referents close to the speaker, positive polarity and the past tense. Further comparati…
Coming back to life: From indicator to stereotype and a strange story of frequency1
In the history of Spanish there are five forms, originally from the same lexical item, co-existing: así, asín, ansí, asina, and ansina, all meaning 'like that'. Standard Modern Spanish includes only one of these: así. This is not the case, however, in New Mexican Spanish. This corpus-based study examines the patterns of synchronic variation in New Mexican Spanish, as well as the near death and transformed rebirth of forms other than standard así …
Pushing the envelope: Looking beyond the variable context
However the variable context is defined, it is standard variationist practice to exclude tokens outside this context from further quantitative analyses. The role of occurrences of forms in contexts that lie outside the shared space of grammaticizing constructions in variation, ranging from highly infrequent occurrences to vast and diverse territories, has yet to be adequately explored. Spanish Synthetic Future (SF) in epistemic contexts does not …
A Certain Future: Epistemicity, Prediction, and Assertion in Iberian Spanish Future Expression
The choice of future construction in Romance languages with variable expression is complex, and several factors have been shown or hypothesized to influence this choice (e.g. Aaron 2006, 2010 and Poplack & Malvar 2007). One factor stands out time and time again, though scholars do not always associate it with the same form: certainty. Using corpus-based quantitative methods, the role of certainty in Iberian Spanish future form variation is examin…
Getting closer: Codification of subjective semantic prosody in Spanish continuative aspect
The syntactic correlates of the diachronic process of subjectification within grammatical constructions, unlike that of discourse markers and connectives, do not include a cancellation of syntax. This can make the identification of subjectification within some grammaticalization processes difficult to identify. Pairs of purportedly synonymous constructions, such as continuative aspectual markers in Spanish, offer an ideal site to explore how cert…
Lone English-origin nouns in Spanish: The precedence of community norms
This paper offers an examination of morphosyntactic factors that are generally understood to measure grammatical integration—and therefore used to help determine the status of other-language-origin nouns as borrowings or code-switches—through the lens of discourse, semantics, and lexical patterns. A total of 820 lone English-origin nouns surrounded by otherwise Spanish discourse are compared to Spanish and English nouns from the recorded speech o…
The road already traveled: Constructional analogy in lexico-syntactic change
Usage-based models of language have proposed a dynamic, organized system based on analogy, or the recognition of similarity. The potential role of analogy between similar forms or constructions, however, is not often discussed. If we aim to illustrate grammaticalization and other diachronic processes not through one construction at a time — but by quantitatively assessing the relationship between constructions — we may better address the role of …
Quantifying transitivity: Uncovering relations of gender and power
Transitivity has come to be recognized as a promising heuristic tool for uncovering implicit ideologies in a wide range of areas. Though it has been used to explore worldviews in several kinds of discourse, nearly all have relied solely on qualitative analyses. Statistical analysis can offer a fuller understanding of past societies. This study applies a gradient, discourse-based understanding of transitivity, which lends itself nicely to corpus-b…
Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works)