On the Nature of Verbal Non-Local Doubling in Patagonian Spanish
The main objective in this study is to describe and offer an account of verbal non-local doubling in Patagonian Spanish (PatSp), an understudied non-standard variety of Spanish in Argentina. We focus on data in which there are duplicated verbs surrounding an XP that bears the nuclear accent of the p...
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| description | The main objective in this study is to describe and offer an account of verbal non-local doubling in Patagonian Spanish (PatSp), an understudied non-standard variety of Spanish in Argentina. We focus on data in which there are duplicated verbs surrounding an XP that bears the nuclear accent of the phrase (XP<sup>NA</sup>). First, our analysis describes the prosodic, semantic, and morphosyntactic behaviour of the data gathered. Second, we present the problems and challenges that doubling phenomena in PatSp pose for approaches that have tried to explain similar data in other Spanish varieties and other languages, such as the copy theory or prosodic cloning. Third, this work explores a biclausal analysis of verbal non-local doubling in PatSp in which each duplicate originates in a different clause, CP1 and CP2. In this approach, duplicated verbs (V1 and V2, according to their linear distribution) are not derivationally related. We also argue that the XP<sup>NA</sup> moves to the left periphery of CP2. This movement would account for the three typical traits of verbal duplication in PatSp: the mandatory adjacency between the nuclear accent and V2, the non-locality between verbal duplicates, and the semantic value of mirativity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f202f4410a6c4e55ac1963253ec543ae2023-12-22T14:20:53ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2023-10-018425510.3390/languages8040255On the Nature of Verbal Non-Local Doubling in Patagonian SpanishJosé Silva Garcés0Gonzalo Espinosa1Faculty of Humanities, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquen 8300, Patagonia, ArgentinaFaculty of Languages, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, General Roca/Fvskv Menuko, Neuquen 8332, Patagonia, ArgentinaThe main objective in this study is to describe and offer an account of verbal non-local doubling in Patagonian Spanish (PatSp), an understudied non-standard variety of Spanish in Argentina. We focus on data in which there are duplicated verbs surrounding an XP that bears the nuclear accent of the phrase (XP<sup>NA</sup>). First, our analysis describes the prosodic, semantic, and morphosyntactic behaviour of the data gathered. Second, we present the problems and challenges that doubling phenomena in PatSp pose for approaches that have tried to explain similar data in other Spanish varieties and other languages, such as the copy theory or prosodic cloning. Third, this work explores a biclausal analysis of verbal non-local doubling in PatSp in which each duplicate originates in a different clause, CP1 and CP2. In this approach, duplicated verbs (V1 and V2, according to their linear distribution) are not derivationally related. We also argue that the XP<sup>NA</sup> moves to the left periphery of CP2. This movement would account for the three typical traits of verbal duplication in PatSp: the mandatory adjacency between the nuclear accent and V2, the non-locality between verbal duplicates, and the semantic value of mirativity.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/255verbal non-local doublingbiclausal approachmirative focusPatagonian Spanish |
| spellingShingle | José Silva Garcés Gonzalo Espinosa On the Nature of Verbal Non-Local Doubling in Patagonian Spanish Languages verbal non-local doubling biclausal approach mirative focus Patagonian Spanish |
| title | On the Nature of Verbal Non-Local Doubling in Patagonian Spanish |
| title_full | On the Nature of Verbal Non-Local Doubling in Patagonian Spanish |
| title_fullStr | On the Nature of Verbal Non-Local Doubling in Patagonian Spanish |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Nature of Verbal Non-Local Doubling in Patagonian Spanish |
| title_short | On the Nature of Verbal Non-Local Doubling in Patagonian Spanish |
| title_sort | on the nature of verbal non local doubling in patagonian spanish |
| topic | verbal non-local doubling biclausal approach mirative focus Patagonian Spanish |
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