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Author Hispanic Linguistic Symposium (19th 2015 : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Title Contemporary trends in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics : selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015 / edited by Jonathan E. MacDonald, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 376 pages)
Series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics (IHLL), 2213-3887 ; volume 15
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ; v. 15.
Contents Intro; Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; References; Part 1. Language structure and use; Chapter 1. SE-marked directed motion constructions: Anticausatives and figure reflexives; 1. Introduction; 2. Descriptive properties of se with intransitive motion verbs; 2.1 Directed motion; 2.2 Culmination; 2.3 Other restrictions: Agentivity and permanence; 3. On the connection between marked anticausatives and directed motion constructions
3. On the connection between marked anticausatives and directed motion constructions4. Analysis; 4.1 Anticausatives and intrinsic reflexives; 4.2 Figure reflexives; 4.3 se-marked directed motion verbs; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 2. Subcategorization and change: A diachronic analysis of sin embargo (de que); 1. Introduction; 2. The construction: Data and summary of the properties; 3. Previous accounts; 4. Our account; 4.1 The data; 4.2 Sin embargo (de) que in the context of in the evolution of Spanish
4.2 Sin embargo (de) que in the context of in the evolution of Spanish4.3 Discussion: The semantic and syntactic properties of the construction; 5. Conclusion; References; Corpora; Chapter 3. Variable clitic placement in US Spanish; 1. Introduction; 2. Variable CP in Spanish; 2.1 Clitic rates and conditioning factors; 2.2 Linguistic factors; 2.3 Social factors; 3. Methodology; 3.1 The data; 3.2 Analysis; 3.3 Coding; 3.4 Predictions; 4. Results; 4.1 Clitic rates; 4.2 Conditioning factors of CP; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References
Chapter 4. Variable negative concord in Brazilian Portuguese: Acceptability and frequency1. Introduction; 2. (Lack of) negative concord in Brazilian Portuguese; 3. Online survey of the acceptability of lack of NC; 4. Results: Acceptability and postverbal frequency; 5. The role of NI productivity; 6. Conclusions; References; Chapter 5. The simultaneous lenition of Spanish /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ as a chain shift in progress; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Push chain shifts; 1.2 Lima Spanish; 1.3 Cuzco Spanish; 1.4 Motivation for the current study; 2. Research questions and hypotheses; 3. Methods
3.1 Participants3.2 Materials; 3.3 Tasks and recording; 3.4 Acoustic measures; 3.5 Data segmentation; 3.6 Data extraction; 3.7 Statistical analysis; 4. Results; 4.1 /ptk/; 4.2 /bdɡ/; 4.3 Dialect differences in variable importance and classification accuracy; 5. Discussion; 5.1 Evaluation of hypotheses; 5.2 Simultaneous lenition of /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ in Spanish as a push chain shift; 5.2 Simultaneous lenition of /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ in Spanish as a push chain shift; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix; Chapter 6. Are Argentines a-blind?: Acceptability of a-marked inanimate direct objects
Notes Papers presented at the annual Hispanic Linguistic Symposium (HLS) held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 24-27, 2015
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Spanish language -- Congresses
Portuguese language -- Congresses
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Spanish.
Portuguese language
Spanish language
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author MacDonald, Jonathan E., editor
LC no. 2017054824
ISBN 9789027264619
9027264619