The word order of two-constituent constructions in spoken Spanish

Ocampo, Francisco A

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“…For the quantitative analysis, the sentences were coded and classified according to their word order. For the coding and classification of the sentences, we followed Ocampo's (1994) study of Spanish word order in informal conversations with speakers from La Plata, Argentina. The rationale for following his methodology was to be able to compare the results for Andean Spanish with his results for Argentinean Spanish.…”

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“…The following sentences were taken into consideration: (i) sentences with a subject, a verb and an object/predicate, (ii) sentences with a verb and an object/predicate, and (iii) sentences with a verb and a subject. Following Ocampo (1994), only declarative sentences and main clauses were analyzed. Furthermore, only lexical NPs were considered.…”

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“…Furthermore, only lexical NPs were considered. The frequencies of the different word orders were calculated and compared to the results reported in Ocampo (1994). Chi-square tests were performed to determine whether there were significant differences between Andean Spanish and Argentinean Spanish.…”

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On the nature of cross-linguistic transfer: A case study of Andean Spanish

Muntendam

2012

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This paper presents the results of a study on cross-linguistic transfer in Andean Spanish word order. In Andean Spanish the object appears in preverbal position more frequently than in non-Andean Spanish, which has been attributed to an influence from Quechua (a Subject–Object–Verb language). The high frequency of preverbal objects could be explained by focus fronting. The main syntactic properties of focus fronting in Spanish are weak crossover and long distance movement. Two elicitation studies designed to test for these properties in non-Andean Spanish, Andean Spanish and Quechua show no evidence of syntactic transfer from Quechua into Andean Spanish. Rather, the analysis of naturalistic data and an elicitation study on question–answer pairs show that there is pragmatic transfer from Quechua into Andean Spanish. The study has implications for theories of syntax and language contact, and especially for the debate on the nature of cross-linguistic transfer.

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On the nature of cross-linguistic transfer: A case study of Andean Spanish

Muntendam

2012

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“…The order OV accounts for 18.5% of the sentences in the Andean Spanish naturalistic data. To compare, Ocampo (1994) found only 7.9% OV in the speech of 21 middleclass speakers from Buenos Aires. A chi-square test shows that the difference between the two varieties of Spanish is significant (χ 2 (1, N=54) = 40.79, p <.0001).…”

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The Syntax and Pragmatics of Language Contact: a case study of Andean Spanish

Muntendam

2010

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In this paper, I report the results of tests that I designed to show how Andean Spanish(AS) word order is affected by language contact with Quechua. In AS the object appears in preverbal position more frequently than in Standard Spanish(SS). The main syntactic properties of focus-fronting in SS are weak-crossover and long-distance movement. I constructed tests to check for these syntactic properties and the pragmatics of focus in AS and Quechua. The results show that AS and SS are syntactically identical, but that there is pragmatic transfer from Quechua into AS. The study has implications for language contact and syntax.

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“…Word order is flexible in that the subject, when expressed, may occupy either a pre-or post-verbal position with the different permutations of sentence types (SVO, VOS, VSO) each expressing essentially equivalent semantic information with different stylistic and pragmatic effects (i.e. Silva-Corvalán 1982;Bentivoglio & Weber 1986;Ocampo 1995;Blackwell 2003, among others).…”

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Subject-verb word order in Spanish interrogatives

Brown¹,

Rivas²

2011

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We conduct a quantitative analysis of conversational speech from native speakers of Puerto Rican Spanish to test whether optional non-inversion of subjects in wh-questions (¿qué tú piensas?) is indicative of a movement in Spanish from flexible to rigid word order (Morales 1989;Toribio 2000). We find high rates of subject expression (51%) and a strong preference for SV word order (47%) over VS (4%) in all sentence types, inline with assertions of fixed SVO word order. The usage-based examination of 882 wh-questions shows non-inversion occurs in 14% of the cases (25% of whquestions containing an overt subject). Variable rule analysis reveals subject, verb and question type significantly constrain interrogative word order, but we find no evidence that word order is predicted by perseveration. SV word order is highest in rhetorical and quotative questions, revealing a pathway of change through which word order is becoming fixed in this variety.

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The word order of two-constituent constructions in spoken Spanish

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On the nature of cross-linguistic transfer: A case study of Andean Spanish

The Syntax and Pragmatics of Language Contact: a case study of Andean Spanish

Subject-verb word order in Spanish interrogatives

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