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Title

The Afro-Bolivian Spanish determiner phrase : a microparametric account / Sandro Sessarego.

Author

Sessarego, Sandro

Publication

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]

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Description

xv, 164 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In this important new study, Sandro Sessarego provides a syntactic description of the Afro-Bolivian Spanish determiner phrase. Afro-Bolivian Spanish is one of the many Afro-Hispanic dialects spoken across Latin America and, from a theoretical point of view, is rich in constructions that would be considered ungrammatical in standard Spanish. Yet these constructions form the core grammar of these less-prestigious, but equally efficient, syntactic systems. Because of the wide variety of their usages, Sessarego's study of these contact varieties is particularly valuable in developing and refining theories of syntactic microvariation. This dialect presents phenomena that offer a real challenge to current linguistic theory. The Afro-Bolivian Spanish Determiner Phrase elaborates on the importance of enhancing a stronger dialogue between formal generative theory and sociolinguistic methodology, in line with recent work in the field of minimalist syntax. Sessarego's study combines sociolinguistic techniques of data collection with generative models of data analysis to obtain more fine-grained, empirically testable generalizations"--

Series Statement

Theoretical developments in Hispanic linguistics

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Theoretical developments in Hispanic linguistics

Subject

• African languages > Influence on Spanish
• Black people > Bolivia > History
• Black people > Bolivia > Languages
• Sociolinguistics > Bolivia
• Spanish language > Bolivia > African
• Spanish language > Determiners. > Bolivia
• Spanish language > Dialects > Bolivia
• Spanish language > Grammar. > Bolivia

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History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages147-158) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1. General Introduction and Objectives of This Study -- 1.2. Theoretical Framework -- 1.3. Organization of the Volume -- ch. 2 A Sociohistorical and Linguistic Sketch of Afro-Bolivian Spanish -- 2.0. Introduction -- 2.1. Terminological Clarifications -- 2.2. Processability Theory and the Interlanguage Hypothesis -- 2.3. Vernacular Universals -- 2.4. Afro-Bolivian Spanish Traditional Features -- 2.5. On the Scarcity of Spanish Creoles in Latin America -- 2.6. Black Slavery in Bolivia -- 2.6.1. First Phase: From the Sixteenth to the Mid-Seventeenth Century -- 2.6.2. Second Phase: From the Mid-Seventeenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century -- 2.7. Black Slavery in Mizque -- 2.8. Black Slavery in Los Yungas -- 2.9. Conclusion -- ch. 3 Language Variation and the Minimalist Program -- 3.0. Introduction -- 3.1. Accounting for Variation -- 3.2. Approaches to the Study of Language Variation -- 3.2.1. The Formal Approach -- 3.2.2. The Sociolinguistic Approach -- 3.2.3. The Diachronic Approach -- 3.2.4. The Microparametric Approach -- 3.2.5. Variability in the Minimalist Program -- 3.3. Variability across Closely Related Dialects: The Afro-Hispanic Case -- 3.4. Data Collection and Methodology -- 3.5. Conclusion -- ch. 4 From NP to DP -- 4.0. Introduction -- 4.1. The Determiner Phrase Hypothesis -- 4.1.1. Abney (1987) -- 4.1.2. Szabolcsi (1983, 1987, 1989, 1994) -- 4.2. In between N and D -- 4.2.1. Ritter (1991, 1993) -- 4.2.2. Picallo (1991) -- 4.2.3. Cinque (1990, 1993) -- 4.2.4. Valois (1991) -- 4.2.5. Carstens (2000) -- 4.3. The Status of NPs and DPs -- 4.3.1. Longobardi (1994) -- 4.3.2. Chierchia (1998) -- ch. 5 Semantic and Syntactic Properties of "Bare" Nouns -- 5.0. Introduction -- 5.1. ABS Nouns and Chierchia's Nominal Mapping Parameter -- 5.2. Number and Mass Interpretation -- 5.3. Bare Nouns as Names of Kinds -- 5.4. The Semantics of (In)definiteness -- 5.4.1. Bare Nouns and Indefiniteness -- 5.4.2. Bare Nouns and Definiteness -- 5.5. Bare Nouns in ABS: A Unified Account -- 5.6. Conclusion -- ch. 6 N-Ellipsis -- 6.0. Introduction -- 6.1. Data -- 6.2. Preposition Uses in ABS and stSp -- 6.3. Previous Analyses -- 6.3.1. Brucart & Gracia (1986) -- 6.3.2. Brucart (1987) -- 6.3.3. Kester & Sleeman (2002) -- 6.3.4. Ticio (2003, 2005) -- 6.4. Toward a New Proposal -- 6.5. Conclusion -- ch. 7 Gender and Number Agreement -- 7.0. Introduction -- 7.1. Data -- 7.2. Agree and Agreement -- 7.3. Applying the Theory to the Data -- 7.4. Conclusion -- ch. 8 Variation in the Determiner Phrase -- 8.0. Introduction -- 8.1. Methodology -- 8.2. Qualitative Data -- 8.3. Quantitative Data -- 8.4. A Formal Analysis -- 8.5. The Local Agreement Gradience Function -- 8.6. Conclusion -- ch. 9 Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780814212653 (hardback)
• 0814212654 (hardback)
• 9780814293690 (cd) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780814273210 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014003586

OCLC

875520900

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library