This paper describes the linguistic features of Afro-Peruvian Spanish as spoken in the municipality of El Carmen, in the immediate vicinity of Chincha. These are linguistic variants that can mostly ...be found in other parts of Peru, being always stigmatized as ‘peasant’, ‘vulgar’, etc. Some features, however, are rather unusual within their national context and may even be related to Caribbean Spanish or to other afrovernacular varieties spoken in Latin America. Against this background, some comments about the place of Afro-Peruvian Spanish in the Peruvian variational context and in the so-called Afro-Hispanic Linguistics turn out to be mandatory. Finally, this paper highlights the actual need of an accurate variational description of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, even more as the Afro-Peruvian community is demanding and, fortunately, gaining visibility in today’s Peru (although much work remains to be done).
The series Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) aims to present a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of Romance linguistics. It will comprise approximately 60 volumes that can either be ...consulted individually or used as a series of books providing a detailed overall picture of the current state of research in Romance linguistics. A special focus will be placed on the presentation and analysis of the smaller languages, the linguae minores.
The Romanistische Arbeitshefte (Romance Studies Workbooks), edited by Georgia Veldre-Gerner and Volker Noll since 2004, have been constant and reliable companions for students of Romance Studies for ...fifty years. In their conception, they are designed as a reflection of the present state of research with an orientation towards application and the specific needs and difficulties of students. Thus they provide a reliable instrument for getting to grips with various areas of Romance linguistic studies and encourage students to utilise their newly-acquired knowledge with integrated exercises.
An original study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text.
The series Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) aims to present a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of Romance linguistics. It will comprise approximately 60 volumes that can either be ...consulted individually or used as a series of books providing a detailed overall picture of the current state of research in Romance linguistics. A special focus will be placed on the presentation and analysis of the smaller languages, the linguae minores.
The Spanish construction
‘what happens is that’, ‘the thing is’ is used in a wide variety of contexts and with a range of different meanings. Linguistic research that has been carried out on this ...relatively common construction often fails to include empirically collected data and, as a result, the diasystematic markers thereof have only been described to a very limited extent. The main focus of this article is to investigate the use of the construction
and its phonetically reduced forms
and
in two Spanish-language oral speech corpora collected in Getxo (Basque Country) and Barcelona (Catalonia). These data are used to carry out a quantitative and qualitative study of the presence or absence of this construction in both regions of language contact, something which has yet to be considered or systematically analysed in the relevant research. The study identifies a statistically relevant diatopic markedness of the forms
,
and
while also providing empirical proof for the pragmatic use of these constructions within the varieties investigated. Furthermore, it confirms the use of additional reduced forms of said constructions and describes their development.
La notion de variation, si elle a été très étudiée par la sociolinguistique, est longtemps restée éloignée des préoccupations de la linguistique générale, et ce en premier lieu pour des raisons ...théoriques : dans le cadre d’une linguistique saussurienne classique ou d’une grammaire générative par exemple, la variation, rattachée à la parole ou à la performance, était par définition exclue du champ de la réflexion. Poursuivant la réflexion engagée dans le volume Variation, Ajustement, Interprétation, consacré à l’étude de phénomènes représentatifs (d’ordre sémantique, constructionnel, discursif et énonciatif) le présent volume étend la perspective aux notions de texte et d’usage, de norme et d’oralité comme déclencheurs du phénomène : la variation retrouve ainsi toute son importance en tant que phénomène inhérent au langage et à son fonctionnement, et dont l’explication ne se limite pas à des causes sociologiques. Ainsi, la contribution collective de ce volume inscrit la variation dans une dynamique, dans une plasticité langagière : générée par le langage, la variation le génère en retour. Dans les deux sens de ce mouvement, il est traité des paramètres déclencheurs et des formes invariantes qui ont été engendrées.
Die slowenische Partikel (und Konjunktion) pa ist eines der frequentesten Lexeme des Slowenischen. Da sie sowohl additive als auch kontrastive Relationen ausdrückt und darüber hinaus auch als Fokus- ...und Modalpartikel fungiert, ist sie als stark unterspezifiziert einzustufen. Innerhalb des slowenischen Satzes, dessen Zweitposition einer Klitikakette nach Wackernagel vorbehalten ist, ist sie in der Lage, eine Vielzahl an topologischen Positionen einzunehmen: Die Vorerstposition und die Erstposition, die Einschubposition zwischen Erst- und Zweitposition, die Position zwischen der Zweitposition und dem Mittelfeld und seltener auch Positionen nach der rechten Verbklammer. In manchen Fällen kann sie in die Klitikakette der Wackernagelposition integriert sein. Es wurde vermutet, dass die von pa einnehmbaren Positionen varietätenlinguistischen Beschränkungen unterliegen, und zwar je nach Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit bzw. Oratheit und Literatheit des Textes. Der vorliegende Artikel zeigt anhand einer Untersuchung von einerseits transkribierten Interviews zu persönlichen und hoch emotionalen Themen und andererseits weitgehend formalen publizistischen Texten, dass tatsächlich eine unterschiedliche Verteilung vorliegt. Außer im Falle von verschriftlichten Zitaten mündlicher Sprache entfallen in den publizistischen Texten nämlich sämtliche Positionen rechts der Wackernagelposition.
Interest in the Spanish language and its regional varieties is increasing constantly. This book, aimed at students of Romance and Spanish Studies, gives a detailed description of American Spanish ...both regionally and historically, contrasting it with the European norm. It contains an updated bibliography and a number of useful exercises.
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