Chapter 10. Performing the world of politics through the discourse of institutional correspondence in Late Middle and Early Modern England

Okulska, Urszula

doi:10.1075/dapsac.36.14oku

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“…Likewise, in most cases private letters lack any kind of prior planning, which also explains their being closer to orality (Danilova 2012). Other authors add important extralinguistic reasons for working with collections of private letters, such as the fact that this correspondence includes many biographical details which, in spite of their limitations, make it much easier to undertake a sociolinguistic study (Raumolin-Brunberg 2005;Okulska 2010;Elspass 2012). In the same way, by using letters it also becomes possible to discover other relevant data about the communicative act, such as the relations of power and solidarity between the sender and his or her addressees.…”

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Comparative variationism for the study of language change: five centuries of competition amongst Spanish deontic periphrases

Arroyo

2018

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics

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Based on a corpus composed entirely of texts close to the pole of communicative immediacy, mainly private letters from the sixteenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries (c. 1960), this paper analyses the results of a variationist study on the historical evolution undergone by the Spanish modal periphrases with three distinct auxiliary verbs (haber, tener, deber). Using the heuristic tools of the comparative method, the data show that variation has been constrained by a handful of common factor groups over almost five centuries. Nonetheless, with the odd exception, these factors have conditioned each verb in a different way. Moreover, the sense of this variation changes as time goes by, with especially relevant reorganisation in the first part of the twentieth century. Furthermore, there is a notable association between these constraints and the degree of markedness and the frequency of the conditioning contexts, giving support to a usage-based approach to language change in which cognitive processes such as entrenchment play a decisive role. These data also allow a particular profile to be traced for each modal verb in the history of Spanish, in which tener and haber finally undergo a complementary distribution, whereas deber follows a different pattern. After several centuries of stagnation, tener becomes the star in the deontic firmament of spontaneous communication, diffusing abruptly as a change from below in the twentieth century, and replacing haber, which had been the unmarked variant for centuries.

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Comparative variationism for the study of language change: five centuries of competition amongst Spanish deontic periphrases

Arroyo

2018

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics

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“…Las razones para ello son diversas. Por un lado, las cartas, especialmente las de contenido privado, contienen multitud de datos de carácter autobiográfico que nos informan acerca de los principales atributos sociales de los escritores, así como de las relaciones de poder y solidaridad que los unen a sus respectivos interlocutores (Okulska 2010). Al mismo tiempo, presentan detalles etnográficos y sociales de gran interés sobre la vida comunitaria del momento en que fueron escritos (Raumolin-Brunberg 2005).…”

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“…Este tipo de textos ha demostrado resultar de gran valor para el estudio de la variación y el cambio lingüístico en periodos de la historia para los que no quedan testimonios orales, por su concepción más cercana a la oralidad que otros géneros textuales sobre los que ha descansado tradicionalmente la práctica de la lingüística diacrónica (cf. Oesterreicher 2004, Palander-Collin & Nevala 2005, Okulska 2010, Danilova 2012, Elspass 2012, Schneider 2013.…”

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Sobre puntos de la gramática particularmente resistentes al cambio: cuatro (largos) siglos en la evolución de las relativas oblicuas de lugar. Un análisis variacionista

Arroyo¹,

Casanova²

2017

Borealis

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RESUMEN. Mediante la utilización del paradigma variacionista y el empleo de un corpus integrado por textos de inmediatez comunicativa, mayoritariamente de carácter epistolar, en esta investigación se analiza un caso de la sintaxis particularmente resistente al cambio: la alternancia entre soluciones pronominales (que y, en menor medida, cual) y adverbiales (donde) en las relativas oblicuas locativas desde el siglo XVI hasta la primera mitad del XX. De los tres análisis independientes de regresión de efectos mixtos llevados a cabo, uno por cada periodo (siglos XVI, XVIII y XX), se deriva un avance paulatino, aunque moderado, de las formas pronominales a lo largo de los siglos y la progresiva disminución del adverbio donde. Con todo, algunos factores lingüísticos se revelan especialmente persistentes en la explicación de la variabilidad (semántica, función sintáctica y categoría del antecedente, junto al priming estructural y la sintaxis de la cláusula regente), lo que dificulta la progresión del cambio. Con respecto a los factores extralingüísticos, la frecuencia de los relativos pronominales en los contextos comunicativos más distantes, así como su uso preferente por parte de las élites sociales y las generaciones adultas, muestra que estas formas se han adscrito a lo largo de la historia a los registros más formales y prestigiosos.Palabras clave: Sociolingüística histórica, cambio lingüístico, variación sintáctica, oración de relativo, inmediatez comunicativa, método variacionista, español.ABSTRACT: Based on the principles and methods of variationism in a corpus composed by ego-documents, this study analyses a case of syntax variation that has proved to be particularly resistant to change in Spanish: the alternation between pronouns (que/el cual) and adverbs (donde) in oblique relatives. Of the three independent mixed-effect regression analyses performed, one for each of the periods considered (16th, 18th and 20th centuries), a moderate progression of the pronominal forms throughout the centuries has been observed. However, some * El presente trabajo se incluye dentro del proyecto de Investigación «Variación y cambio lingüístico a través de textos de inmediatez comunicativa: un proyecto de sociolingüística histórica», », financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Ref. FFI2013-44614-P;2014-2017 y la Universidad Jaume I (Ref. P1·1B2013-01; 2013-2016). Los detalles pueden encontrarse en la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://sociolinguisticawe.wix.com/sociolinguisticauji. Agradecemos a Carme Barberà, Susana Martínez, Maria Chiara Marullo y Jordi Ayza por su colaboración en diversas tareas relacionadas con el proyecto. Asimismo agradecemos a tres evaluadores anónimos por sus perspicaces comentarios, que han contribuido, sin duda, a mejorar el artículo. Cualquier error es responsabilidad exclusiva de los autores.

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“…This is especially true in the case of personal letters (Elpass, 2012). They contain many autobiographical details, which make it possible to determine the relationships of power and solidarity between senders and addressees, as well as their social status (Okulska, 2010). Likewise, they contain ethnographic information that enables researchers to unravel some of the details of social life in bygone times (Raumolin-Brunberg, 2005).…”

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The refuge of a dying variant within the grammar: Patterns of change and continuity in the Spanish verbal periphrasishaber de + infinitive over the past two centuries

Arroyo

Lahoz

2015

Lang Var Change

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Based on a corpus of ego-documents (private letters, diaries, memoirs) from the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, this article presents a variationist comparative study to determine the fate of the modal periphrasis haber de + infinitive in the history of modern Spanish. Detailed analysis of the envelope of variation enables us to show that, despite an abrupt decline in the selection of haber de relative to tener que, both 'to have to', grammatical environments that favour its use remain in the mid-20th century: many of the factor groups and the hierarchy of constraints during this period are similar to those that operated in previous periods. Nevertheless, a generalised decrease in the explanatory power of these factor groups, as well as some divergent patterns within several of these groups are also observed, mainly as a result of the fact that haber de + infinitive is increasingly relegated to some restricted areas of the grammar and lexicon.Based on these results, some theoretical implications for changing rates and constraints in language change and grammaticalisation are discussed.

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Chapter 10. Performing the world of politics through the discourse of institutional correspondence in Late Middle and Early Modern England

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Comparative variationism for the study of language change: five centuries of competition amongst Spanish deontic periphrases

Comparative variationism for the study of language change: five centuries of competition amongst Spanish deontic periphrases

Sobre puntos de la gramática particularmente resistentes al cambio: cuatro (largos) siglos en la evolución de las relativas oblicuas de lugar. Un análisis variacionista

The refuge of a dying variant within the grammar: Patterns of change and continuity in the Spanish verbal periphrasishaber de + infinitive over the past two centuries

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