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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164963303321

Autore

Claes Jeroen

Titolo

Cognitive, social, and individual constraints on linguistic variation : a case study of presentational 'haber' pluralization in Caribbean Spanish / / Jeroen Claes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-052170-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Cognitive Linguistics Research, , 1861-4132 ; ; Volume 60

Disciplina

465

Soggetti

Spanish language - Variation - Caribbean Area

Spanish language - Morphosyntax

Cognitive grammar - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations and other conventions -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Presentational haber pluralization -- Chapter 3: Cognitive Construction Grammar and language variation -- Chapter 4: Research questions and hypotheses -- Chapter 5: Methodology -- Chapter 6: Semantic and syntactic properties of presentational haber -- Chapter 7: Cognitive constraints on presentational haber pluralization -- Chapter 8: Social constraints on presentational haber pluralization -- Chapter 9: Individual constraints on presentational haber pluralization -- Chapter 10: Cognitive, social, and individual constraints on presentational haber pluralization -- References -- Index -- Appendix A: Story-reading task -- Appendix B: Questionnaire-reading task

Sommario/riassunto

The present volume tries to answer the question: What constrains morphosyntactic variation? By analyzing the variable agreement of presentational haber (‘there to be’) in Caribbean Spanish with advanced statistical tools and theoretical constructs of Cognitive Sociolinguistics,



psycholinguistics, and variationist sociolinguistics, it proposes an innovative theoretical model of the constraints that govern morphosyntactic variation.