A Usage-Based Perspective on Spanish Variable Clitic Placement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7903799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pablo E Requena (0000-0002-9011-9755, The University of Texas at San Antonio, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 33 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages5030033 |
| OpenAlex | W3083623971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 37 |
This study provides a usage-based analysis of Spanish Variable Clitic Placement (VCP). A variationist analysis of VCP in spoken Argentine Spanish indicates that VCP grammar is constrained by lexical (finite verb) and semantic (animacy) factors. Considering the finite effect, the study focuses on usage-based accounts for the gradience attested across finite verb constructions. Grammaticalized meaning and increased frequency tend to account for VCP in general. However, one [tener que + infinitive] construction is found exceptional in that it favors enclisis despite its grammaticalized meaning of obligation and its high frequency of use. Data from a larger corpus indicate that the [tener que + infinitive] construction lacks unithood, signaling great analyzability of its component elements. Through an exemplar analysis, the [haber que ‘must’ + infinitive] construction that categorically takes enclisis and which is strongly linked to [tenerque + infinitive] diachronically, semantically, and structurally emerges as a likely analogical model for VCP with tener que, pushing tener que towards enclisis. This study not only illustrates how usage-based linguistics can capture VCP more generally, but also how this framework provides powerful tools to discover the constraints on VCP in naturalistic use in order to account for individual construction behavior
Causative · Clitic · Construction Grammar · Grammar · Grammaticalization · Infinitive · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Natural language processing · Verb · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Language Contact and Change
Language, Usage and Cognition
Restructuring and Functional Heads
Grammaticalization
Phonology and Language Use
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Scorekeeping in a language game
Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization
Topic continuity in discourse
Ii.—on Denoting
Morphology
Comparative variationism for the study of language change
Coherence in text, coherence in mind
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Clause Reduction in Spanish
Three Frequency Effects in Syntax
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Grammatical relation probability
Semantic Interpretation Vs. Lexical Governance
General semantics
Getting off the GoldVarb Standard
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Iconicity in Syntax
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |