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Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. Contemporary trends in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics: selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015 / edited by Jonathan E. MacDonald, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. — 1 online resource. — (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics). — Papers presented at the annual Hispanic Linguistic Symposium (HLS) held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 24-27, 2015. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/1696828.pdf>.

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Table of Contents

  • Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
    • References
  • Part 1. Language structure and use
  • Chapter 1. SE-marked directed motion constructions: Anticausatives and figure reflexives
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Descriptive properties of se with intransitive motion verbs
      • 2.1 Directed motion
      • 2.2 Culmination
      • 2.3 Other restrictions: Agentivity and permanence
    • 3. On the connection between marked anticausatives and directed motion constructions
    • 3. On the connection between marked anticausatives and directed motion constructions
    • 4. Analysis
      • 4.1 Anticausatives and intrinsic reflexives
      • 4.2 Figure reflexives
      • 4.3 se-marked directed motion verbs
    • 5. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 2. Subcategorization and change: A diachronic analysis of sin embargo (de que)
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The construction: Data and summary of the properties
    • 3. Previous accounts
    • 4. Our account
      • 4.1 The data
      • 4.2 Sin embargo (de) que in the context of <(de) que> in the evolution of Spanish
      • 4.2 Sin embargo (de) que in the context of <(de) que> in the evolution of Spanish
      • 4.3 Discussion: The semantic and syntactic properties of the construction
    • 5. Conclusion
    • References
    • Corpora
  • Chapter 3. Variable clitic placement in US Spanish
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Variable CP in Spanish
      • 2.1 Clitic rates and conditioning factors
      • 2.2 Linguistic factors
      • 2.3 Social factors
    • 3. Methodology
      • 3.1 The data
      • 3.2 Analysis
      • 3.3 Coding
      • 3.4 Predictions
    • 4. Results
      • 4.1 Clitic rates
      • 4.2 Conditioning factors of CP
    • 5. Discussion
    • 6. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 4. Variable negative concord in Brazilian Portuguese: Acceptability and frequency
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. (Lack of) negative concord in Brazilian Portuguese
    • 3. Online survey of the acceptability of lack of NC
    • 4. Results: Acceptability and postverbal frequency
    • 5. The role of NI productivity
    • 6. Conclusions
    • References
  • Chapter 5. The simultaneous lenition of Spanish /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ as a chain shift in progress
    • 1. Introduction
      • 1.1 Push chain shifts
      • 1.2 Lima Spanish
      • 1.3 Cuzco Spanish
      • 1.4 Motivation for the current study
    • 2. Research questions and hypotheses
    • 3. Methods
      • 3.1 Participants
      • 3.2 Materials
      • 3.3 Tasks and recording
      • 3.4 Acoustic measures
      • 3.5 Data segmentation
      • 3.6 Data extraction
      • 3.7 Statistical analysis
    • 4. Results
      • 4.1 /ptk/
      • 4.2 /bdɡ/
      • 4.3 Dialect differences in variable importance and classification accuracy
    • 5. Discussion
      • 5.1 Evaluation of hypotheses
      • 5.2 Simultaneous lenition of /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ in Spanish as a push chain shift
      • 5.2 Simultaneous lenition of /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ in Spanish as a push chain shift
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
    • Appendix
  • Chapter 6. Are Argentines a-blind?: Acceptability of a-marked inanimate direct objects
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Previous literature
    • 3. Variables
    • 4. Research questions and hypotheses
    • 5. Methodology
      • 5.1 Instrument
      • 5.2 Speakers
      • 5.3 Participants
      • 5.4 Data analysis
    • 6. Results
    • 7. Discussion
    • 8. Conclusions
    • References
  • Chapter 7. The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies: The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The treatment of linguistic variants in previous work
    • 3. Previous work on coda /s/ lenition in Spanish
    • 4. Methodology: The variable and dataset
    • 5. The case in Nicaragua
    • 6. Models fitted to aspiration
    • 7. Models fitted to deletion
    • 8. Recommendation for treatment of the dependent variable
    • 9. Conclusion
    • References
  • Chapter 8. The past persists into the present: A multivariate analysis of present perfect and preterite in Southern Arizona Spanish narratives
    • 1. Background
    • 2. The distribution of PP in Spanish varieties
    • 3. Methodology and data
      • 3.1 The envelop of variation
      • 3.2 Data coding
    • 4. Results
    • 5. Analysis & discussion
    • 6. Conclusion
    • References
  • Chapter 9. “El vos nuestro es, ¡Ey vos, chigüín!”: Honduran vos as a marker of national identity
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Sociopragmatic usage patterns of vos in Latin America
      • 2.1 Río de la Plata
      • 2.2 Central America
      • 2.3 Honduras
    • 3. A practical theory of nationalism
    • 4. Methodology
    • 5. Results and discussion of analysis
      • 5.1 Vos as nonstandard norm
      • 5.2 Vos as index of Honduran national identity
      • 5.3 Innovative use of vos
      • 5.4 Concluding remarks
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Part 2. Interacting grammars
  • Chapter 10. Acquisition of articulatory control or language-specific coarticulatory patterns?: Evidence from the production of laterals in second-language Spanish
    • Introduction
    • 1. Background
      • 1.1 Coarticulation
      • 1.2 Coarticulation and the lateral
      • 1.3 Coarticulation in second languages
    • 2. Research questions and hypotheses
    • 3. Method
      • 3.1 Participants
      • 3.2 Data elicitation
      • 3.3 Acoustic analyses
      • 3.4 Statistical analyses
    • 4. Results
    • 5. Discussion
    • 6. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
    • Appendix A
    • Appendix B
  • Chapter 11. Voice onset time and the child foreign language learner of Spanish
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Literature review
      • 2.1 VOT
      • 2.2 L2/FL acquisition of VOT
    • 3. Research design
      • 3.1 Participants
      • 3.2 Data collection and analysis
    • 4. Results
      • 4.1 Absolute VOT
      • 4.2 Relative VOT
    • 5. Discussion
    • 6. Conclusions
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
    • Appendix
  • Chapter 12. “Extraña uno lo que es la tortillas”: A preliminary study of number agreement in Spanish in contact with Purépecha
    • Introduction
    • 1. Background
      • 1.1 Early second language acquisition
      • 1.2 Contact varieties
      • 1.3 The syntax and semantics of number, number features in Purépecha, and the mass/count distinction
      • 1.4 Overview of number marking in contact varieties and SLA studies
    • 2. The present study
      • 2.1 Theoretical framework
      • 2.2 Hypotheses
      • 2.3 The informants
      • 2.4 Data collection methodology
    • 3. Results and discussion
      • 3.1 Number agreement within the NP
      • 3.2 Subject-verb agreement
      • 3.3 Agreement in predication
    • 4. Conclusions and future directions
    • References
  • Chapter 13. Mothers’ use of F0 after the first year of life in American English and Peninsular Spanish
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Present study
      • 2.1 Research questions and hypotheses
    • 3. Methods
      • 3.1 Corpus and subjects
      • 3.2 Coding and analysis
    • 4. Results
      • 4.1 Mean F0
      • 4.2 F0 range
    • 5. Discussion and conclusions
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
    • Appendix A
  • Chapter 14. Extra-syntactic factors in the that-trace effect
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The that-trace effect
      • 2.1 Extraction restrictions in Spanish and English
      • 2.2 Syntactic accounts of the that-trace effect
      • 2.3 Interface-based accounts
    • 3. The Interface Hypothesis
    • 4. Subject placement and the that-trace effect
    • 5. Experiment 1
      • 5.1 Methods
      • 5.2 Results
    • 6. Experiment 2
      • 6.1 Methods
      • 6.2 Results
      • 6.3 Interim discussion
    • 7. Experiment 3
      • 7.1 Methods
      • 7.2 Results
    • 8. Discussion
    • 9. Conclusions
    • References
  • Chapter 15. An initial examination of imperfect subjunctive variation in Catalonian Spanish: A contact linguistics and usage-based approach
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Literature review
      • 2.1 The Spanish imperfect subjunctive
      • 2.2 The effects of cognates and structural priming
      • 2.3 Theoretical frameworks
    • 3. Method
    • 4. Results
    • 5. Discussion and conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 16. Testing English influence on first person singular “yo” subject pronoun expression in Sonoran Spanish
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Methodology
      • 2.1 Participants
      • 2.2 Data collection
    • 3. Results
      • 3.1 Hypothesis 1: Overall frequencies
      • 3.2 Constraint hierarchy of the factor groups
      • 3.3 Hypothesis 2: Loss of sensitivity to the switch reference constraint
      • 3.4 Hypothesis 3: Clause type
      • 3.5 Hypothesis 4: Community as a factor
    • 5. Conclusion
    • References
    • Appendix 1
  • Index

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