{"title":"Stativity and inchoativity","authors":"M. E. Mangialavori Rasia, Josep Ausensi","doi":"10.1075/sic.00094.man","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00094.man","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 States, long considered a homogeneous event class, have been shown to actually decompose into sufficiently\u0000 distinct aspectual types. Davidsonian and Kimian statives (Maienborn 2008; Rothmayr 2009), for instance, show a major contrast in presence/absence of event-related\u0000 properties, including finer-grained (sub)class distinctions. Within the Davidsonian (mixed eventive-stative) type, a novel class\u0000 has been identified using Spanish data as reference (Marín and McNally 2011). This\u0000 class, dubbed inchoative stative is characterized by including a left boundary (Piñón 1997) marking the temporal onset of the state. We focus on documented Old Spanish data to argue\u0000 that non-eventive (Kimian-like) left-bounded states are also possible. We note that productive combinations of the locative copula\u0000 estar ‘be-loc’ with past participles of specific verbs produce distinct selectional and\u0000 interpretive patterns defined by (i) pure states (homogenous spatial situation); (ii) no change-of-state/location denotation;\u0000 (iii) left boundary. If correct, data suggest that inchoative stativity is not necessarily a Davidsonian type of\u0000 predication; and that two distinct types of inchoative statives should be carefully differentiated under (more) specific\u0000 criteria.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139007578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Gradoville, Mark Waltermire, Audrey Chery, Sofía Fernandez, Avizia Long
{"title":"Intervocalic /ɡ/ realization in Border Uruguayan Spanish","authors":"Michael Gradoville, Mark Waltermire, Audrey Chery, Sofía Fernandez, Avizia Long","doi":"10.1075/sic.00096.gra","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00096.gra","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In Border Uruguayan Spanish, intervocalic voiced obstruents have been known to be produced as stops due to the variety’s contact with Portuguese. The present study investigates intervocalic /ɡ/ in a corpus of sociolinguistic interviews. Using an acoustic measure, a consonant-vowel intensity ratio, as an index of constriction of /ɡ/, we found that, similar to /b/ and /d/, the speaker’s age, Spanish use, and sex have a strong impact on the realization of intervocalic /ɡ/. Specifically, younger speakers, those that speak Spanish most of the time, and men are likely to use less constricted variants such as approximants and elision. Given the parallels that these results have with findings of studies of intervocalic /d/ and, to a lesser extent, /b/ in this variety, we discuss support for the notion that the three phonemes behave as a series and not independently.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First person singular subject pronoun expression of young Spanish speakers from Quito, Ecuador","authors":"Leslie Del Carpio","doi":"10.1075/sic.21015.del","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.21015.del","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This variationist study analyzes the first-person subject pronoun expression (SPE) of speakers from Quito, Ecuador. To date, this morphosyntactic variable has not been explored in this Andean variety of Spanish. The data consists of 20 sociolinguistic interviews. Results reveal an SPE rate of 17%, comparable to other Andean Spanish varieties. As per Rbrul’s quantitative analysis, the predictors that promote the presence of the ‘yo’ in this variety of Spanish are co-referential Priming, switch reference, ambiguous TMA endings and main clauses. In addition, following Orozco and Hurtado (2021) , lexical effects of the verb were observed by analyzing the verb lemma. This predictor revealed similarly opposing tendencies between verbs in the same lexical category. This study adds to the growing body of SPE research by examining which linguistic variables influence the use of ‘yo’ in this Ecuadorian Andean Spanish (EAS) variety and comparing these results to those of other Andean Spanish varieties.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134900793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The case for broader copulas","authors":"Daniel Wilson","doi":"10.1075/sic.00092.wil","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00092.wil","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Discovering, comparing, and contrasting natural kinds is critical for scientific progress. It should be the goal of linguistic inquiry to seek out natural kinds within and between languages. Unfortunately, the most common definition of a copula is consistently inadequate for categorizing and comparing the data in cross-linguistic research on this topic. The categories of pseudo-copula and semi-copula have been offered to account for constructions which resemble the copular relationship between subject and complement, though with added meaning in that relationship. I will argue that copulas, defined more broadly, function in diverse ways cross-linguistically to instantiate the alterable feature-driven relationship between subject and complement. This article presents a gradient view of copulas based on a set of binary featural parameters with which a language may represent with one or more copulas. A formal description of this phenomena is also offered within in the framework of Distributed Morphology, building on Wilson (2020) .","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135933685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cognitive underpinnings of the meaning of Spanish <i>estar</i>","authors":"María Mercedes Piñango, Martín Fuchs","doi":"10.1075/sic.00095.pin","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00095.pin","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Spanish copula verb estar is currently taking part in two of the most well-known paths of semantic change across different dialectal varieties of Spanish: (a) as a main copula verb, in its encroachment on the domain of ser, and (b) as the auxiliary in the Present Progressive marker, as it encroaches in the domain of the Simple Present form (i.e., Sánchez-Alonso 2018 ; Fuchs 2020 ). Here we argue for the hypothesis that estar ’s participation in both paths of change is not coincidental. Focusing on the copular use, we present arguments for the proposal that estar ’s encroachment is connected to its lexico-conceptual structure, which, under specific communicative pressures, is afforded greater conversational informativity, thus systematically expanding its licensing contexts and, as a result, bolstering its use. Evidence consistent with this analysis emerges from use variation for estar across several dialects of Spanish, both in its copular and auxiliary uses.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135933811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Bonnin (2019): Discourse and Mental Health: Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical Settings","authors":"Dalia Magaña","doi":"10.1075/sic.00090.mag","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00090.mag","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44154505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estar+ILP","authors":"M. V. Escandell-Vidal","doi":"10.1075/sic.00089.esc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00089.esc","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A sentence like María está muy guapa (‘María looks very pretty’) attributes the property of being\u0000 pretty to María but also conveys the assumption that the state-of-affairs described is based on direct experience. Several\u0000 explanatory hypotheses are found in the literature to account for this fact: (i) experientiality is a property of the copula\u0000 estar; (ii) experientiality is an effect of contextual factors; and (iii) experientiality is the result of\u0000 resolving the aspectual mismatch produced by combining estar with an Individual-Level Predicate (ILP). To test\u0000 the predictions of these hypotheses, a comprehension-based survey was carried out. Participants were given isolated copular\u0000 sentences with estar followed by either an ILP or an SLP (Stage-Level Predicate). Using a 5-point Likert scale,\u0000 they had to rate how likely it was that the utterer had direct experience about the quality s/he was asserting. The results show a\u0000 significant preference for the experiential interpretation in estar+ILP, an outcome that is consistent only with\u0000 the hypothesis that the linguistic mismatch found in estar+ILP is enough to induce the accommodation of a direct\u0000 experience presupposition.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48909744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspectivized estar-sentences with aesthetic adjectives across American Spanish\u0000 varieties","authors":"Silvia Gumiel-Molina, Norberto Moreno-Quibén, Isabel Pérez-Jiménez","doi":"10.1075/sic.00086.gum","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00086.gum","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The article describes the behavior of aesthetic adjectives (bonito ‘beautiful’) in the so-called\u0000 innovative constructions with estar ‘be\u0000 estar\u0000 ’, documented in some American varieties of\u0000 Spanish. These innovative structures (El poema está bonito ‘The poem is beautiful’) do not compare stages of the\u0000 subject with respect to an aesthetic property (as would be their meaning in general Spanish), but rather express a perspectivized\u0000 assertion, linked to the subjective judgment of the speaker about a particular quality. The article explains this pattern of\u0000 variation on the basis of the work by Gumiel-Molina, Moreno-Quibén and Pérez-Jiménez\u0000 (2020) and Moreno-Quibén (2022), according to which the classes of\u0000 adjectives that appear in perspectivized estar-sentences have undergone a process of argument augmentation.\u0000 Aesthetic adjectives in innovative estar-construction have an experiencer in their argument structure in the\u0000 varieties of Spanish where this construction is possible. This experiencer serves as the basis for establishing the comparison\u0000 required by estar and ultimately gives rise to the subjective/perspectivized meaning of the copular\u0000 structure.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47255788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}