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Teorias e vetore
(2022)
Language contact and the linguistic coding of evidentiality in varieties of Spanish in Latin America
(2022)
À partir des travaux des ethnologues qui ont décrit le fonctionnement des sociétés paysannes de l’Ancien Régime, nous montrons dans cet article comment le récit de l’enfance bretonne de Chateaubriand dans les ‚Mémoires d’outre-tombe‘ obéit à une logique initiatique qui donne à l’animal un rôle de premier plan. Transformée en véritable „aventure“, la capture des oiseaux devient pour l’enfant l’occasion de forger son caractère et de découvrir le sens de l’honneur, tandis que la contemplation de leur envol éveille en lui le goût des voyages qu’il n’a pas encore la possibilité d’assouvir. À Combourg, chouettes et chat noir peuplent les nuits de l’enfant et l’obligent à dompter ses peurs. Quant au cheval, que Chateaubriand a mal appris à maîtriser, il devient sous sa plume l’emblème d’une époque révolue dominée par les privilèges de l’aristocratie et le signe de l’inadaptation des derniers rois de France. Il restera à l’écrivain à s’emparer de cette familiarité avec le monde animal pour nourrir son imaginaire et sa sensibilité de plus en plus grande au sort que lui réserve la société.
The starting point of this article is the occurrence of determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers like (en) que, ‘(in) that’, instead of (en) el que, ‘(in) which’, in Yucatecan Spanish (southeast Mexico). While reference grammars treat complementizers with a determiner as the standard option, previous diachronic research has shown that determiner-less complementizers actually predate relative complementizers with a determiner. Additionally, Yucatecan Spanish has been in long-standing contact with Yucatec Maya. Relative complementation in Yucatec Maya differs from that in Spanish (at least) in that the non-complex complementizer tu’ux (‘where’) is generally the only option for locative complementation. The paper explores monolingual and bilingual data from Yucatecan Spanish to discuss the question whether the determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers in our data constitute a historic remnant or a dialectal recast, possibly (but not necessarily) due to language contact. Although our pilot study may not answer these far-reaching questions, it does reveal two separate, but intertwined developments: (i) a generally increased rate of bare que relative complementation, across both monolingual speakers of Spanish and Spanish Maya bilinguals, compared to other Spanish varieties, and (ii) a preference for donde at the cost of other locative complementizer constructions in the bilingual group. Our analysis thus reveals intriguing differences between the complementizer preferences of monolingual and bilingual speakers, suggesting that different variational patterns caused by different (socio-)linguistic factors can co-develop in parallel in one and the [same] region.
Linguistic hybridity
(2022)
This volume deals with different linguistic phenomena representing grammaticalization and lexicalization processes and combines different approaches of contact linguistics and variational linguistics. It contains papers on clitic placement in Angolan Portuguese, on the use of subject pronouns in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish, on evidential marking in Paraguayan Spanish, on Paraguayan Guaraní, on evidentiality in different varieties of Spanish, on discourse markers in Latin America, on modal particles in Italian and their translation into German, on bilingual communities in Southern Brazil, on Spanish-German-Russian language contact and on Romance aspectual periphrases in contact with English progressives.
Modality refers to the attitudes a speaker can adopt toward the propositional content of an utterance including, among others, possibility and necessity. After introducing different theoretical perspectives on this concept, this manual presents the markers of modality (moods, modal verbs, adverbs) in Romance languages. It also addresses diachronic questions and the overlaps between modality and other grammatical categories.