El cambio lingüístico y la interfaz sintaxis-pragmática: evidencias de las lenguas ibero-románicas
This article analyses the function and distribution of the so-called "overt subject expletive" ello/ele/ell in certain non-standard Ibero-Romance varieties. Novel empirical facts are presented to illustrate the phenomenon’s heterogeneous characterization, the present-day variation of which...
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| Formato: | Online |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
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El Colegio de México, A.C.
2016
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| Acesso em linha: | https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/27 |
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Cuadernos de Lingüística |
| Resumo: | This article analyses the function and distribution of the so-called "overt subject expletive" ello/ele/ell in certain non-standard Ibero-Romance varieties. Novel empirical facts are presented to illustrate the phenomenon’s heterogeneous characterization, the present-day variation of which is argued to be explained by the different degrees of change undergone by the expletive element in each Ibero-Romance variety. The pragmatic import of today’s Iberian expletive resembles the semantic value of the oldest and most commonly attested examples of the phenomenon in the historical corpora used. This observation serves as the point of departure for the diachronic reconstruction of the element’s development from its proposed origin in epistemic contexts to the present day, where the alleged Iberian expletive exhibits both expletive and pragmatic characteristics even within the same variety Original received: 2015/05/28Review sent to author: 2015/08/07Accepted: 2015/09/10 |
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