Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics : Selected Papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015.

Intro -- Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- References -- Part 1. Language structure and use -- Chapter 1. SE-marked directed motion constructions: Anticausatives and figure reflexives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Descriptive properties of se with intransitive motion verbs -- 2.1 Directed motion -- 2.2 Culmination -- 2.3 Other restrictions: Agentivity and permanence -- 3. On the connection between marked anticausatives and directed motion constructions -- 3. On the connection between marked anticausatives and directed motion constructions -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Anticausatives and intrinsic reflexives -- 4.2 Figure reflexives -- 4.3 se-marked directed motion verbs -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2. Subcategorization and change: A diachronic analysis of sin embargo (de que) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The construction: Data and summary of the properties -- 3. Previous accounts -- 4. Our account -- 4.1 The data -- 4.2 Sin embargo (de) que in the context of &lt -- (de) que&gt -- in the evolution of Spanish -- 4.2 Sin embargo (de) que in the context of &lt -- (de) que&gt -- in the evolution of Spanish -- 4.3 Discussion: The semantic and syntactic properties of the construction -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora -- Chapter 3. Variable clitic placement in US Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Variable CP in Spanish -- 2.1 Clitic rates and conditioning factors -- 2.2 Linguistic factors -- 2.3 Social factors -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 The data -- 3.2 Analysis -- 3.3 Coding -- 3.4 Predictions -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Clitic rates -- 4.2 Conditioning factors of CP -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References.

Chapter 4. Variable negative concord in Brazilian Portuguese: Acceptability and frequency -- 1. Introduction -- 2. (Lack of) negative concord in Brazilian Portuguese -- 3. Online survey of the acceptability of lack of NC -- 4. Results: Acceptability and postverbal frequency -- 5. The role of NI productivity -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5. The simultaneous lenition of Spanish /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ as a chain shift in progress -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Push chain shifts -- 1.2 Lima Spanish -- 1.3 Cuzco Spanish -- 1.4 Motivation for the current study -- 2. Research questions and hypotheses -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Materials -- 3.3 Tasks and recording -- 3.4 Acoustic measures -- 3.5 Data segmentation -- 3.6 Data extraction -- 3.7 Statistical analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 /ptk/ -- 4.2 /bdɡ/ -- 4.3 Dialect differences in variable importance and classification accuracy -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Evaluation of hypotheses -- 5.2 Simultaneous lenition of /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ in Spanish as a push chain shift -- 5.2 Simultaneous lenition of /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ in Spanish as a push chain shift -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 6. Are Argentines a-blind?: Acceptability of a-marked inanimate direct objects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous literature -- 3. Variables -- 4. Research questions and hypotheses -- 5. Methodology -- 5.1 Instrument -- 5.2 Speakers -- 5.3 Participants -- 5.4 Data analysis -- 6. Results -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7. The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies: The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The treatment of linguistic variants in previous work -- 3. Previous work on coda /s/ lenition in Spanish -- 4. Methodology: The variable and dataset -- 5. The case in Nicaragua -- 6. Models fitted to aspiration.

7. Models fitted to deletion -- 8. Recommendation for treatment of the dependent variable -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8. The past persists into the present: A multivariate analysis of present perfect and preterite in Southern Arizona Spanish narratives -- 1. Background -- 2. The distribution of PP in Spanish varieties -- 3. Methodology and data -- 3.1 The envelop of variation -- 3.2 Data coding -- 4. Results -- 5. Analysis &amp -- discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9. "El vos nuestro es, ¡Ey vos, chigüín!": Honduran vos as a marker of national identity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sociopragmatic usage patterns of vos in Latin America -- 2.1 Río de la Plata -- 2.2 Central America -- 2.3 Honduras -- 3. A practical theory of nationalism -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results and discussion of analysis -- 5.1 Vos as nonstandard norm -- 5.2 Vos as index of Honduran national identity -- 5.3 Innovative use of vos -- 5.4 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part 2. Interacting grammars -- Chapter 10. Acquisition of articulatory control or language-specific coarticulatory patterns?: Evidence from the production of laterals in second-language Spanish -- Introduction -- 1. Background -- 1.1 Coarticulation -- 1.2 Coarticulation and the lateral -- 1.3 Coarticulation in second languages -- 2. Research questions and hypotheses -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Data elicitation -- 3.3 Acoustic analyses -- 3.4 Statistical analyses -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Chapter 11. Voice onset time and the child foreign language learner of Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 2.1 VOT -- 2.2 L2/FL acquisition of VOT -- 3. Research design -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Data collection and analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Absolute VOT.

4.2 Relative VOT -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 12. "Extraña uno lo que es la tortillas": A preliminary study of number agreement in Spanish in contact with Purépecha -- Introduction -- 1. Background -- 1.1 Early second language acquisition -- 1.2 Contact varieties -- 1.3 The syntax and semantics of number, number features in Purépecha, and the mass/count distinction -- 1.4 Overview of number marking in contact varieties and SLA studies -- 2. The present study -- 2.1 Theoretical framework -- 2.2 Hypotheses -- 2.3 The informants -- 2.4 Data collection methodology -- 3. Results and discussion -- 3.1 Number agreement within the NP -- 3.2 Subject-verb agreement -- 3.3 Agreement in predication -- 4. Conclusions and future directions -- References -- Chapter 13. Mothers' use of F0 after the first year of life in American English and Peninsular Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Present study -- 2.1 Research questions and hypotheses -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Corpus and subjects -- 3.2 Coding and analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Mean F0 -- 4.2 F0 range -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A -- Chapter 14. Extra-syntactic factors in the that-trace effect -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The that-trace effect -- 2.1 Extraction restrictions in Spanish and English -- 2.2 Syntactic accounts of the that-trace effect -- 2.3 Interface-based accounts -- 3. The Interface Hypothesis -- 4. Subject placement and the that-trace effect -- 5. Experiment 1 -- 5.1 Methods -- 5.2 Results -- 6. Experiment 2 -- 6.1 Methods -- 6.2 Results -- 6.3 Interim discussion -- 7. Experiment 3 -- 7.1 Methods -- 7.2 Results -- 8. Discussion -- 9. Conclusions -- References.

Chapter 15. An initial examination of imperfect subjunctive variation in Catalonian Spanish: A contact linguistics and usage-based approach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 2.1 The Spanish imperfect subjunctive -- 2.2 The effects of cognates and structural priming -- 2.3 Theoretical frameworks -- 3. Method -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 16. Testing English influence on first person singular "yo" subject pronoun expression in Sonoran Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Data collection -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Hypothesis 1: Overall frequencies -- 3.2 Constraint hierarchy of the factor groups -- 3.3 Hypothesis 2: Loss of sensitivity to the switch reference constraint -- 3.4 Hypothesis 3: Clause type -- 3.5 Hypothesis 4: Community as a factor -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Index.

The book offers a panorama of current research into multiple varieties of Spanish from several different regions (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras), Catalan, Brazilian Portuguese, as well as varieties in contact with English and Purépecha.

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