The modularty of agreement variation

  1. Javier Ormazabal 1
  2. Juan Romero 2
  1. 1 Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
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    Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

    San Sebastián, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01a28zg77

  2. 2 Universidad de Extremadura
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    Universidad de Extremadura

    Badajoz, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0174shg90

Revista:
Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics

ISSN: 2385-4138

Año de publicación: 2024

Título del ejemplar: Current issues in Spanish syntactic variation

Volumen: 10

Volumen: 5

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5565/REV/ISOGLOSS.389 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics

Resumen

In this article, following Ormazabal & Romero (2022) insights, a modular approach to agreement variation is proposed where syntactic relations are uniform, dialectal variation is determined in morphology, and extragrammatical modules deal with sociolinguistic variation. While dialectal variation is systematic, dependent on hierarchical relations, and occurs within linguistic communities; sociolinguistic agreement variation is arbitrary, linearly determined, and subject to socioeconomic and educational pressures.

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