"This volume brings together studies that combine both traditional and contemporary tools in the study of syntactic geolectal variation, with a special focus on a subset of Iberian varieties. There is an increasing body of research on syntactic micro-variation, but the interaction between dialectology (which makes use of atlases, corpora, databases, questionnaires, interviews, etc.) and formal syntactic studies has traditionally been weak (or even nonexistent), which is precisely the gap the contributions in this book aim at filling in. From a broader perspective, this collection is meant as a contribution to the subfield of linguistic variation and to the more general field of Romance linguistics, with special interest in Spanish and in other Iberian languages. The volume is meant for both researchers and students interested in linguistic variation or dialectology and, specifically, in syntactic variation in Iberian languages"--.

• Syntactic Geolectal Variation
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Introduction
  • 1. Traditional studies on dialectal variation
  • 2. Studies on linguistic variation in the Iberian tradition
  • 3. Current projects on the study of variation (in Europe and beyond)
  • 4. The present volume
  • 5. An overview of the volume
    • 5.1 Section I. Dialectology: Atlas, databases, notebooks
    • 5.2 Section II. Current perspectives on variation. Four case studies
    • 5.3 Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
  • Funding
  • References
• Section I. Dialectology: Atlas, databases, notebooks
• Chapter 1. The syntactic tradition in the Spanish linguistic atlases
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Questionnaires and sentences
  • 3. The syntax in the ALPI
  • 4. The syntax in the regional atlases
  • 5. Oral texts
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
• Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues: The case of auxiliary selection in Catalan
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 The Catalan linguistic domain
    • 1.2 The dialectal divisions of Catalan
    • 1.3 The Atles Lingüístic del Domini Català
  • 2. Auxiliary selection in Old Catalan
  • 3. Auxiliary selection according to the ALDC materials
    • 3.1 Unaccusative change of location constructions
    • 3.2 Indirect reflexive constructions and anticausative constructions
    • 3.3 ALDC survey points with perfect constructions containing the auxiliary ésser ‘to be’
  • 4. The survival of auxiliary ésser ‘to be’ in Catalan
    • 4.1 L’Alguer
    • 4.2 Northern Catalonia
    • 4.3 Majorca and Minorca
    • 4.4 Ribagorça
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
  • Annex
• Chapter 3. The negative expressions in three dialectal repertoires: The notebooks by A. M. Alcover, the ALPI and the ALDC
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Negative expressions in Alcover’s field notebooks, in the ALPI and in the ALDC
    • 2.1 The negative expressions in the ALPI
    • 2.2 The negative expressions in the ALDC
    • 2.3 The negative expressions in Alcover’s QC
  • 3. A brief comparison of the results
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
• Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The study of dialect syntax
    • 2.1 Why are the studies in dialect syntax interesting?
    • 2.2 Dialect syntax studies in the Romance varieties of the Transpyrenean area
  • 3. Microvariation studies in the Transpyrenean area. The case study of m-negs
    • 3.1 General overview of the phenomenon studied
    • 3.2 Presence of the studied phenomenon in the sources of traditional dialectology
    • 3.3 A new approach to linguistic atlases as sources for formal studies of m-negs
  • 4. The analysis
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
  • Selected sources
• Section II. Current perspectives on variation: Four case studies
• Chapter 5. Syntactic features and dialect areas in European Spanish
  • 1. Foreword
  • 2. A review of the classical linguistic atlases in Spain
    • 2.1 Syntax and the Spanish atlases: Some problems
    • 2.2 The syntactic information in the ALECMan. Castilla-La Mancha as an area of mixed dialectal traits
    • 2.3 Selection of syntactic features after the Spanish linguistic atlases
  • 3. Syntactic areas in European Spanish after the linguistic atlases
    • 3.1 Traditional boundaries inside European Spanish and their corresponding relevant features
    • 3.2 A proposal to discuss
  • 4. Final remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• Chapter 6. Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Neuter gender in Spanish
    • 2.1 Grammatical properties of neuter pronouns
    • 2.2 The gender of neuter pronouns
  • 3. Mass neuter agreement
    • 3.1 Definition and description
    • 3.2 Data from atlases and dialectal corpus
    • 3.3 Mass neuter gender in nouns
    • 3.4 Mass neuter agreement and adjectives
    • 3.5 Mass neuter agreement and determiners
  • 4. The analysis of neuter demonstrative pronouns
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
• Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination: A case study in Eastern Iberian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Clitic combinations in Eastern Iberian
    • 2.1 Geographic distribution
    • 2.2 Clitic combinations
    • 2.3 Interim conclusions
  • 3. The distinctness condition
    • 3.1 Combinatorial restrictions
    • 3.2 Cross-linguistic variation
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• Chapter 8. Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methodology
    • 2.1 Surveys
    • 2.2 Corpora analysis
  • 3. Two patterns of gerunds of anteriority
    • 3.1 Adverbial gerunds
    • 3.2 Pseudo-periphrases
  • 4. Towards an analysis of Ecuadorian gerunds
    • 4.1 Adverbial gerunds
    • 4.2 Pseudo-periphrases
  • 5. Converbs in Quechua and their Spanish equivalents
    • 5.1 Morphemes of simultaneity/progressive tense
    • 5.2 Morphemes of adverbial subordination
  • 6. Gerunds in Old Spanish and their interaction with Quechua structures that express anteriority
    • 6.1 General overview of the diachronic evolution and the linguistic change
    • 6.2 Diachronic evolution of Spanish adverbial gerund constructions
  • 7. Linguistic contact, transfer, second language acquisition, and convergence
    • Contact-induced change
    • Functional convergence hypothesis
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations in glosses
  • References
  • Sources
• Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh-in-situ: Cross-linguistic comparison and experimental evidence from Basque
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basque interrogative strategies: The emergence of wh-in-situ
    • 2.1 Interrogatives in Basque
    • 2.2 The new wh-in-situ strategy of Navarro-Labourdin Basque
  • 3. Interface approaches to wh-in-situ
    • 3.1 Cheng & Rooryck (2000): An intonation morpheme licensing wh-in-situ and yes/no questions
    • 3.2 Richards (2010, 2016)
    • 3.3 Mathieu (2016)
  • 4. Problems with prosody-based analyses
    • 4.1 Stress patterns and interrogative strategies
    • 4.2 Prosodic phrasing and interrogative strategies
  • 5. Assessing the prosodic patterns of interrogatives in Basque: An experiment
    • 5.1 Extending Cheng & Rooryck’s (2000) analysis to Basque
    • 5.2 The experiment
    • 5.3 Discussion
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
• Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
• Chapter 10. ASinEs: An interactive atlas for the study of syntactic variation of Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Motivations for the ASinEs project
    • 2.1 The general scarcity of studies on syntactic variation
    • 2.2 The rise of a new tendency
    • 2.3 The ASinEs project in this context
  • 3. Goals and configuration of the ASinEs project
  • 4. The structure of the atlas
    • 4.1 Data
    • 4.2 Grammatical description
    • 4.3 Distribution
    • 4.4 Analysis
    • 4.5 Other information and ID
    • 4.6 The file as a working unit
  • 5. How to use the ASinEs
    • 5.1 The ASinES search engine
    • 5.2 Other resources
  • 6. Challenges for the ASinEs
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 11. The Corpus del español del siglo XXI (CORPES XXI): A tool for the study of syntactic variation in Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Structural parameters of CORPES XXI
  • 3. Description and possibilities of CORPES XXI in the analysis of syntactic variation in Spanish
    • 3.1 Simple search
    • 3.2 Complex search
    • 3.3 Processing the result
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
• Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation: Collecting tweets and mapping them out
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. FireAnt
  • 3. 140dev Streaming API Framework
  • 4. Elastic Stack
  • 5. QGIS
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Language index
• Subject index