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The influence of the focus structure on the placement of pronominal clitics in Asturian
| Title: | The influence of the focus structure on the placement of pronominal clitics in Asturian |
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| Authors: | Corral Esteban, Avelino |
| Contributors: | Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras |
| Publisher Information: | Universidá d'Uviéu Ediciones Trabe |
| Publication Year: | 2024 |
| Collection: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM): Biblos-e Archivo |
| Subject Terms: | La lengua asturiana, el dialecto vaqueiro, la colocación de los clíticos, la estructura de la información, la gramática del papel y la referencia, Filología |
| Description: | The present paper examines the enclisis and proclisis alternations of an ancestral variety of Asturian spoken in two very small geographically and culturally isolated villages in the mountains of western Asturias, Sellón and Masenga (Municipality of Villayón). These villages, once seasonal settlements, are inhabited by descendants of the ancestral ethnic group known as Vaqueiros de Alzada, a nomadic people that have been living there from time immemorial. In their ancestral form of speech, we can observe very specific characteristics, ranging from profound changes in pronunciation, information structure, vocabulary and morphology to slight but relevant effects on syntax. More specifically, the main aim of this study is to investigate the properties that clitics have in this variety that make them different from the clitics in Central Asturian and Standard Modern Spanish and, subsequently, to account for the post- and preverbal clitic alternations in the simple and elegant way provided by the Role and Reference Grammar framework. This would serve to highlight the crucial role played by the interaction between syntax and information structure on the distinctive placing of pronominal clitics exhibited by this variety.All in all, this paper will outline the differences between Standard Spanish, Central Asturian (which is normally considered the normative variety of Asturian) and this ancestral variety of Western Asturian regarding the clitic placement alternation arising both in matrix and embedded clauses ; Financial support for this research has been provided by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), (FFI2011-53788-C3-1-P) |
| Document Type: | article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | Revista de Filoloxía Asturiana; https://doi.org/10.17811/rfa.15.2015.57-98; Gobierno de España. FFI2011-53788-C3-1-P; https://hdl.handle.net/10486/713355; 57; 98; 15 |
| DOI: | 10.17811/rfa.15.2015.57-98 |
| Availability: | https://hdl.handle.net/10486/713355 https://doi.org/10.17811/rfa.15.2015.57-98 |
| Rights: | open access |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.3CF2D784 |
| Database: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.17811/rfa.15.2015.57-98 |
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