Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar

Wheeler, Max W.; Yates, Alan; Dols, Nicolau

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“…Current descriptions of the Catalan verbal system agree that the tense categories are present, past, and future and that the aspect categories are perfective and imperfective (Badia, 1994;Pérez Saldanya, 2002;Wheeler, Yates, & Dols, 1999). 6 Catalan is a null-subject Romance language that, similar to Spanish, French, and Italian, morphologically marks the distinction between perfective and imperfective aspect in the past by way of preterite and imperfect forms, respectively.…”

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The Aspect Hypothesis: Development of Morphology and Appropriateness of Use

Comajoan

2006

Language Learning

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According to the aspect hypothesis Bardovi-Harlig, 2000), perfective morphology emerges before imperfective morphology, it is first used in telic predicates (achievements and accomplishments) and it later extends to atelic predicates (activities and states). The opposite development is hypothesized for imperfective morphology. This study proposes to investigate the emergence of preterite and imperfect morphology in Catalan to examine if the aspectual characteristics of predicates can account for the emergence of morphology and also appropriate use. Past verbal forms in narratives produced by three multilingual learners of Catalan as a foreign language were coded for appropriateness of use, morphology, and lexical aspect. An aspectual analysis of the data provided support for the aspect hypothesis, because achievement and accomplishment predicates in general were inflected for preterite morphology more frequently than were activity and state predicates, and the opposite was found for the I would like to thank the three learners in this study for their patience and willingness to participate for a long period of time. I am grateful to the anonymous Language Learning reviewers, Manel Pérez Saldanya, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, and all the other colleagues who read earlier versions of the article.

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The Aspect Hypothesis: Development of Morphology and Appropriateness of Use

Comajoan

2006

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“…A heritage‐language but Castilian‐dominant Catalan speaker from Mallorca once described the prescriptive pronoun charts to me as “pure science fiction.” According to Wheeler et al. (:167), it is in part the “discrepancies between widespread colloquial habits and formal, written conventions” that make this the most exacting aspect of Catalan grammar.…”

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“…They are an extensive set of cliticizing unstressed object and adverbial pronouns called the pronoms febles , “weak pronouns.” Linguists have described the weak pronouns as the “most intricately exacting aspect of Catalan grammar” (Wheeler et al. :167). In standard Catalan, there are multiple allomorphs of each pronoun, depending on their combination and their position in relation to the verb.…”

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What's So Funny Now? The Strength of Weak Pronouns in Catalonia

Woolard

Bencomo

Soler

2013

J Linguistic Anthropol

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s foundational analyses of linguistic convergence and of code-switching in bilingual and multilingual settings continue to influence work in interactional sociolinguistics, where these phenomena are seen as systematic mobilizations of the bilingual repertoire to cue interlocutors to the ongoing construction of situated meaning. However, the utility of Gumperz's approach is not restricted to interactional, micro-social questions. As Gumperz's own earliest work showed, varying patterns of code-switching and of linguistic convergence can reveal significant macro-social differences in communities across space as well as changes within a community across time. In earlier work, I have used code-switching and convergence as tracers to help gauge sociopolitical change in Catalonia across several decades, particularly by examining the changing patterns of mixed-language practices that make people laugh. In this article, I analyze new Catalan mass-media data (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013) in order to assess the evolution of the serio-comic situation of Catalan three decades after I first investigated it as a student of Gumperz at the moment of the return to Catalan political autonomy. [Catalan, bilingualism, language ideology, language change, social change] Introduction J ohn Gumperz indelibly marked the study of language in society by focusing analytic attention on nonstandard, hybrid linguistic practices in multilingual communities. Looking closely at speech that was regarded, in popular and even expert views, as ill-formed, incompetent, or careless, Gumperz convincingly and influentially proposed that these were in fact linguistically systematic and socially meaningful strategic practices. He gave us foundational analyses of code-switching and of convergence among linguistic varieties in settings as diverse as Norway and India, and his conceptual framework continues to influence work on linguistic repertoires today.

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“…Importantly, these sentences can be constructed using intonation (SVO) and, although this is not compulsory, by changing the order of constituents (VSO/VOS). Therefore, some authors argue that yes/no interrogatives may not require inversion (Ordoñez, 1996;Payrató, 2002;Suñer, 1994;Wheeler, Yates, & Dols, 1999;Zagona, 2002). A singularity of Catalan is that, in some dialects, yes/no questions can be headed by the complementiser que (11) (Payrató, 2002;Rigau, 1998).…”

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Non-fluent aphasia in Ibero-Romance: a review of morphosyntactic deficits

2014

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Background: Castilian-Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and European Portuguese are the most widely spoken languages of the Ibero-Romance group. An increasing number of authors have addressed the impact of aphasia on the morphosyntax of these varieties. However, accurate linguistic characterisations are scarce and the different sources of data have not been yet compiled. Aims: To stimulate state-of-the-art research, we provided a comprehensive summary of morphosyntactic aspects of Ibero-Romance and a review of how these are affected in non-fluent aphasia. The topics we dealt with are the use of verb argument structure and morphology, sentential negation and word order, definite articles, personal and reflexive pronouns, passives, topicalised constructions, questions, and relative clauses. Methods & Procedures: An exhaustive fieldwork and search of PubMed, Web of Science, and Medline records were performed to retrieve studies focused on morphosyntactic issues concerning the Ibero-Romance varieties. A total of 27 studies produced by 46 authors of varying background emerged. We did not review studies of category-specific deficits and aspects related to bilingual aphasia, although we assume that most speakers of Galician and Catalan are bilingual. Studies of spontaneous speech were included when no controlled experimental tasks were available. Outcomes & Results: The morphosyntactic commonalities of Ibero-Romance have been tackled from different theoretical perspectives. There exist asymmetries in findings which we explain with the use of different tasks (and task complexity) and individual differences between participants. Conclusions: Discourse-linking factors as well as deviations from the canonical pattern are recurrent answers to these asymmetries. A comprehensive theory of impairments in non-fluent aphasia integrating relevant aspects of both structural and processing accounts seems necessary.

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Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar

Cited by 24 publications

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The Aspect Hypothesis: Development of Morphology and Appropriateness of Use

The Aspect Hypothesis: Development of Morphology and Appropriateness of Use

What's So Funny Now? The Strength of Weak Pronouns in Catalonia

Non-fluent aphasia in Ibero-Romance: a review of morphosyntactic deficits

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