Los efectos de la interacción sobre la expresión variable de los sujetos pronominales en español

Philip Limerick

doi:10.17533/udea.lyl.n77a13

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Philip Limerick Eastern Kentucky University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n77a13

Keywords:

interaction effects, pronouns, Spanish, subject expression

Abstract

This research project sought to explore the non-orthogonal role of the factors that condition the use of pronominal subjects in Spanish (SPE) through a quantitative analysis of interviews, systematized by cross tabulation and trees of conditional inference, in order to explore such interaction effects. This study reveals that several factors together restrict the use of SPE and that the variable grammar of PSS is more complex than observed, with only mere effects in sociolinguistic literature.

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Author Biography

Philip Limerick, Eastern Kentucky University

Ph.D. in Romance Languages with a concentration in Hispanic Linguistics and adjunct instructor of Spanish (Eastern Kentucky University, United States). His doctoral research addressed the emergence of new varieties of Spanish among immigrant populations in the Southeastern United States, an area whose representation in the linguistics literature is small compared to the major Spanish-speaking populations in other U.S. regions. Limerick gained access to a community of speakers in Roswell (Georgia, United States), undertaking two dozen interviews that provided the natural speech data used for his work. This research provides a framework for understanding the mechanisms that underlie linguistic variation in this community. His work is innovative, both in its treatment of this community of U.S. Latinos and in its blend of sociolinguistic and pragmatic perspectives. It could represent an important contribution to the still nascent understanding of the linguistic features that characterize new dialect formation.

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