Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond: Structure, Context and Development

369 Pages·2020·31.278 MB·

by  Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana

Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond

The scholarly articles included in this volume represent significant
contributions to the fields of formal and descriptive syntax, conversational
analysis and speech act theory, as well as language development and bilin-
gualism. Taken together, these studies adopt a variety of methodological
techniques— ranging from grammaticality judgments to corpus-b ased ana-
lysis to experimental approaches—t o offer rich insights into different aspects
of Ibero- Romance grammar.
The volume consists of three parts, organized in accordance with the topics
treated in the chapters they comprise. Part I focuses on structural patterns,
Part II analyzes pragmatic ones, and Part III investigates the acquisition
of linguistic aspects found in the speech of L1, L2 and heritage speakers.
The authors address these issues by relying on empirically rooted linguistic
approaches to data collection, which are coupled with current theoretical
assumptions on the nature of sentence structure, discourse dynamics and lan-
guage acquisition.
The volume will be of interest to anyone researching or studying Hispanic
and Ibero- Romance linguistics.
Juan J.  Colomina- Almiñana is Instructor of Linguistics and Spanish in
the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Louisiana State
University, USA.
Sandro Sessarego is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

Series Editor: Dale A. Koike
University of Texas at Austin
The Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics series provides
a showcase for the latest research on Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics. It
publishes select research monographs on various topics in the field, reflecting
strands of current interest.
Titles in the series:
Interface- Driven Phenomena in Spanish
Essays in Honor of Javier Gutiérrez- Rexach
Edited by Melvin González- Rivera and Sandro Sessarego
Spanish in the United States
Attitudes and Variation
Edited by Scott M. Alvord and Gregory L. Thompson
Spanish in Health Care
Policy, Practice and Pedagogy in Latino Health
Glenn A. Martínez
Los castellanos del Perú
historia, variación y contacto lingüístico
Edited by Luis Andrade Ciudad and Sandro Sessarego
Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond
Structure, Context and Development
Edited by Juan J. Colomina- Almiñana and Sandro Sessarego
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and Beyond
Structure, Context and Development
Edited by Juan J. Colomina- Almiñana
and Sandro Sessarego
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Names: Colomina Almiñana, Juan José, editor. | Sessarego, Sandro, editor.
Title: Language patterns in Spanish and beyond: structure, context and
development / edited by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Sandro Sessarego.
Description: London; New York : Routledge, 2020. |
Series: Routledge studies in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020017841 (print) | LCCN 2020017842 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367550639 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003091790 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Spanish language–Syntax. | Spanish
language–Variation. | Spanish language–Acquisition.
Classification: LCC PC4361 .L36 2020 (print) |
LCC PC4361 (ebook) | DDC 460–dc23
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Per a Nicole i Ausiàs (Juan J. Colomina- Almiñana)

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Contents

List of contributors x

Introduction: patterns in syntax, pragmatics and
acquisition in Spanish and beyond 1

SANDRO SESSAREGO AND JUAN J. COLOMINA- ALMIÑANA
PART I
Syntactic patterns 11

1 Argument and adjunct coordination in Spanish 13

MICHAEL WILSON AND RONG YIN
2 The interaction of parasitic gaps and adjunct control
in Spanish 37

KATIE VANDYNE
3 “¿Qué traes güey?”: an analysis of Spanish clausal possession 52

CHRISTIAN RUVALCABA
4 Invariable qué- questions (IQQs) in Spanish 75

JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ AND ALFREDO GARCÍA PARDO
5 Verbless DP interrogative constructions and enclisis
in Galician 97

BRIAN M. GRAVELY, JR. AND TIMOTHY M. GUPTON
6 Leísmo: one le or two? 122

ADOLFO AUSÍN AND FRANCISCO J. FERNÁNDEZ- RUBIERA
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PART II
Pragmatic patterns 145

7 What’s courteous about leísmo? 147

ADOLFO AUSÍN
8 Verbless exclamatives in Spanish beyond the
syntax- semantics interface: a pragmatic account 166

MELVIN GONZÁLEZ-R IVERA
9 The meaning of y tó: conventional implicatures in
Puerto Rican Spanish 188

NIEVES RIVERA
10 Exploring extended focus and meaning in Chilean
Spanish intonational plateau contours 199

BRANDON M.A. ROGERS, RAJIV RAO AND MATTHEW BURNER
11 The intonation of yes- no questions in Basque Spanish 223

CAROLINA GONZÁLEZ AND LARA REGLERO
PART III
Acquisition patterns 243

12 How preschoolers acquire the null- overt contrast in
Mexican Spanish: evidence from production 245

HANNAH FORSYTHE, DAN GREESON AND CRISTINA SCHMITT
13 Acquisition of null subjects by heritage children and
child L2 learners 266

MICHELE GOLDIN
14 Demonstratives in Spanish: children’s developing
conceptualization of interactive space 285

NAOMI L. SHIN AND JILL P. MORFORD
15 The production of ser and estar in Catalan/ Spanish
bilingual children 302

ALEJANDRO CUZA AND PEDRO GUIJARRO- FUENTES
Contents ix
16 Frequency and semantic prototypicality in L2 Spanish
learners’ dative constructions 329

DAVID ABUGABER
Index 349