A Bend in the Road
Subject Personal Pronoun Expression in Spanish after 30 Years of Sociolinguistic Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7900741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nydia Flores‐ferrán (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 624-652 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Linguistics Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-818X • E-ISSN: 1749-818X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00031.x |
| OpenAlex | W2076663026 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 33 |
Scholars have investigated the variable use of subject personal pronouns (SPP) in oral and written discourse using a sociolinguistic framework for over three decades. The focal point of their research has been to determine the linguistic, stylistic, and social factors that influence speakers to express or not express the SPP as in Yo canto (I sing), and Canto [(I) sing]. Several linguistic, stylistic, and social factors have been found to condition the use of the expressed SPP. Nonetheless, this syntactic variable remains highly debated among scholars who investigate Spanish in the US, Latin American, and Peninsular varieties. The remarks in the article are suggestive rather than probative as the discussion represents an overview. It also provides a gateway of interest regarding this feature. Given the many empirical studies that have investigated this feature, the metaphor of ‘the bend in the road’ represents a slight turn that should guide our thoughts for future research
Linguistics · Metaphor · Personal pronoun · Pronoun · Sociology · Subject pronoun · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
The role of cognitive and linguistic abilities on subject personal pronoun expression in Spanish-speaking children
Variable subject pronoun expression revisited
An Exploratory Study of the Effect of Spanish Immersion Education on the Acquisition of Pronominal Subjects in Child Heritage Speakers
El papel de la interacción en la expresión de sujetos pronominales de segunda persona
An account of the variation in the rates of overt subject pronouns in Romance
El efecto del turno de habla y del discurso directo en la expresión de sujetos pronominales de primera persona singular
El Español de los Estados Unidos
After the Null Subject Parameter
Influencia Del Género Narrativo Y De La Función De Trasfondo De Los Verbos en Imperfecto De Indicativo en La Posposición De Yo
Lexical frequency and morphosyntactic variation
Remapping variable subject position in Spanish intransitives
Variable “subject” presence in Australian Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language
Theoretical implications of research on bilingual subject production
Language activation in dual language schools
Subject expression in L2 Spanish
Subject pronoun expression and language mode in bilingual Spanish
On the use of uno in Colombian Spanish
The persistence of expression
Recent Research on Latinos in the USA and Canada, Part 2
A Variationist Study of Subject Pronoun Expression in Medellín, Colombia
Sociolinguistic Competence in Chinese Heritage Language Speakers
Sociolinguistic Competence by L2 Chinese Learners Through the Lens of Null Object Use
Who are ‘we’ in spoken Peninsular Spanish and European Portuguese? Expression and reference of first person plural subject pronouns
Framing constructed action in British Sign Language narratives
Spanish in the United States
Language Contact and Change
Identity in Narrative
A spreading-activation theory of retrieval in sentence production.
Conflict
The Social Stratification of English in New York City
Perseveration of subject expression across regional dialects of Spanish
Overt nonspecific Ellos in Spanish in New York
On the (African) origins of Palenquero subject pronouns
Person marking in the wake of /s/ deletion in Andalusian Spanish
Marking in discourse
Null pronoun variation in Mexican-descent children's narrative discourse
Spanish subject personal pronoun use in New York City Puerto Ricans
Ambiguous agreement, functional compensation, and nonspecific tú in the Spanish of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Madrid, Spain
Spanish in the United States
Latin American Spanish
Setting parametric limits on dialectal variation in Spanish
Sociolinguistic Patterns
Fórmulas de tratamiento de segunda persona singular en el español de chile
Pragmatic weight' and Spanish subject pronouns
The Dual Function of usted
Preposed Subjects in Questions
Pragmatic weight' and face
La hipotesis funcional y la aparicion de sujeto no nominal
Functional Compensation for /s/ Deletion in Puerto Rican Spanish
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |