MO/013, Núm 13 (2007)

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Bibliografía seleccionada y comentada sobre escritura
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) López Rivera, Juan José; Longa Martínez, Víctor Manuel
Hacia un análisis de las relaciones discursivas contraargumentativas en el español de Cataluña
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Burguera Serra, Joan G.
Joan G. BURGUERA SERRA: Towards an Análisis of Counter-argumentation Discourse Relationships in the Spanish from Catalonia. The study of the counter-argumentation discourse relationships has mainly been based on the analysis of those markers that incorporate a procedural meaning of opposition or contrast between two discourse segments. In our study, we propose a description of the particular use of the pero and por eso as counter-argumentation markers in the Spanish of Catalonia. In this way, we opt for a contrastive focus in which we will compare the values that the correlates of these forms in Catalonian (però y per això) have with the use of pero and por eso in a standard variety of Spanish. Finally, we describe the functionality of the latter in the Spanish spoken in Catalonia by taking into consideration the situation of contact of languages and concepts like those of linguistic interference or convergence. In the results found in our analysis one can observe a difference in both the pragmatic meaning as well as in the distributional properties that we link to pero and por eso in standard Spanish and in the Spanish used in Catalonia.
Los estudios de dialectología en el Centro de Estudios Históricos. La realización del Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Pérez Pascual, José Ignacio
José Ignacio PÉREZ PASCUAL: Dialectology Studies in the Centro de Estudios Históricos. The Making of the Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica. At the Centro de Estudios Históricos, and under the responsibility of Tomás Navarro Tomás, the Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica was designed based on the models elaborated in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. In this article, we will take a look into this ambitious scientific project, examining the complex process of preparation and realization of the surveys by part of a group of promising specialists in the different linguistic domains of the peninsula, who had trained to do so along with Navarro. Between 1931 and 1936 most of the points set out by ALPI were covered, but the conclusions were delayed various decades because of the Civil War.
La gramática española y su enseñanza entre dos siglos: Diego Narciso Herranz y Quirós
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) García Folgado, María José
María José GARCÍA FOLGADO: Spanish Grammar and Its Teaching Between Two Centuries: Diego Narciso Herranz y Quirós. In the second half of the 18th century, Spanish grammar experimented an important change as it was included as part of the curriculum for the different centers and educational institutions that were developed in Spain in that period. In this sense, the transformation of the former Hermandad de San Casiano, an organism that since the 17th century, had been dedicated to the control of primary teachers, into the Colegio Académico del Noble Arte de Primeras Letras (1780), is extremely important. Indeed, the latter received the complete support of the government of Carlos III, and would also go on to establish contact with other institutions that were also created in the Bourban era, such as the Real Academia Española.
Jalones decimonónicos en la concepción gramatical de la RAE
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Garrido Vílchez, Gema B.
Gema B. GARRIDO VÍLCHEZ: Nineteenth Century Milestones in the Grammatical Conceptualization of the RAE. Of the numerous nineteenth century editions of the academic Gramática, three stand out as milestones: the GRAE from 1854, 1870 and 1880. The covers of each of these three texts present them as “new editions”. Indeed, they are considerable milestones in the doctrinal evolution of this Institution: each one of them would be a model for all the editions that followed until the publication of the next milestone (which does not mean that the body of the doctrine was never partially redone in some of the intermediate editions). To provide a description of the grammatical theory that the three editions contain, one must, first look into the conceptualization of the Grammar that is defended in them (by way of the definition, division and characteristics attributed to the discipline) and also the way in which the books are structured and the objectives that each was meant to achieve.
El refuerzo de la negación mediante sustantivos de valor mínimo: una visión quijotesca
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Coterillo Díez, Sara Cristina
Sara Cristina COTERILLO DÍEZ: The Strengthening of Negation with Minimal Value Nouns: A Quixotic vision. The usage of minimal substantives in order to strengthen a negative structure is a very well-known procedure in all languages and has been target of several approaches. This paper aims to make the mainly medieval lists more complete since it is based on Cervantes’ text Don Quijote de la Mancha. The minimizers that resulted from our study are included like a short dictionary and their most relevant characteristics have been analyzed. In this way we mean to show the device involved in these negative reinforcers, in which insignificant meaning, quantification and expressiveness seem to play crucial roles.
Revisión de los valores de “luego” en los textos medievales zamoranos
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) García Rodríguez, Manuela
Manuela GARCÍA RODRÍGUEZ: Revising the Semantic Values of luego in Medieval Texts from Zamora. The autor revises the different variants that have come up in the evolution of the adverb luego as found in the testimony collected from documents at the Archivo Parroquial de Villalpando and from the Monasterio de Santa Clara de Villalobos, in the northern part of the Zamora province. This grammatical particle has varied semantically, so that it has gone from its initial spatial meaning to a temporal one, from which it has then evolved to express “precision”.
Sobre la decadencia del participio en –udo en castellano: los datos de la Vizcaya bajomedieval
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Ramírez Luengo, José Luis
José Luis RAMÍREZ LUENGO: On the Decadence of the Participle in –udo in Castillian Spanish: the data from late medieval Vizcaya. The work at hand studies the use of the –udo participle in the Castillian Spanish used in late medieval Vizcaya in order to analyze its process of decadence and substitution, as well as any possible peculiarities in this concrete diatopic variety. In light of the data registered, one can say that these forms already show a highly routine use in Vizcaya in the 14th and 15th centuries. This is confirmed with its almost exclusive use in the expression ser tenudo de/a, and also more particularly, in the work of texts by certain more conservative scribes, that unlike other contemporaries did not use the more modern form with –i.
Las cláusulas finales en el “Poema de Fernán González”
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Kítova Vasíleva, María
María KÍTOVA-VASÍLEVA: Final Clauses in the Poema de Fernán González. This article analyzes “integrated” clauses of purpose expressing finality in the Poema de Fernán González. This analysis allows us to conclude that (1) in the final structures using an infinitive both transitive and intransitive (copulative or pronominal) verbs are used as regents; (2) the regents semantics is decisively important for the construction of final clauses; (3) we find an interesting use of clauses using final infinitives even in those cases when the “agents” do not coincide; (4) we find clauses using an infinitive in which the coreferentiality of agents appears 92.8 % of the time, while those using a verb in the subjunctive make up only 6.3 %; (5) when the regents in the clauses using infinitives express movement, we find constructions in which the regent is still united in an immediate way to the verb that takes the dative, and when a nexus is used we can detect the parallel use of the prepositions a, por, pora and por a, among which the preferred use of a stands out; and finally, (7) the punctuation that the critical editors have included in their editions in order to delimitate the verses and their hemistiches, in many instances only obscures the meaning, makes reading difficult, and does not allow certain enun-ciations to be interpreted correctly.
El futuro epistémico y la variación: gramaticalización y expresión de la futuridad desde 1600
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Aaron, Jessi Elana
Jessi Elana AARON: Epistemic Future and Variation: Grammaticization and the expression of futurity since 1600. In Modern Spanish, there are two constructions that are most commonly associated with future meaning, the Synthetic Future (SF) (e.g. cantaré), and the Periphrastic Future (PF) (e.g. voy a cantar). However, future temporal reference in Spanish has undergone a dramatic shift, in which the territory of the SF has been slowly encroached upon by the PF. Drawing upon quantitative evidence from a 935,000-word corpus of Iberian Spanish, this paper examines this diachronic process from a variationist perspective. The competition between these constructions began to gain momentum in the 17th century, with the PF reaching 4% relative frequency. This figure is dwarfed by the relative frequency of 66% PF in the 20th-century in spoken data (27% in written). Based on four independent multivariate analyses of 3,274 occurrences of PF and SF, it is shown that the contextual constraints on SF-PF variation, such as verb class, temporal adverbials, and sentence type, have remained relatively stable even in the face of drastic changes in frequency. It is also shown that some changes in rates and variation patterns in future temporal expression are linked to a further grammaticization of the SF in the 20th century, with epistemic uses on the rise, constituting 24% of SF use in 20th-century spoken Iberian Spanish.
El orden de constituyentes en el romance temprano. Las “Glosas Emilianenses”
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Suárez Fernández, Mercedes
Mercedes SUÁREZ FERNÁNDEZ: The Order of Constituents in Early Romance. Las Glosas Emilianenses. For the period that dates from Vulgar and Late Latin and ends in Early Romance, some of the authors that deal with the period of Early Romance have directed their attention to the study of the order of constituents. They have proposed a VSO order that has been supported in certain indications found in the text Las Glosas Emilianenses. Here, we mean to demonstrate, on the one hand, that the documental testimony of the Latin-Romance evolution, as well as the documents from Early Romance do not sustain a VSO order, but a SVO one, and on the other hand, that the indications of the Glosas are susceptible to interpretations in which certain constituent order markers are not taken into consideration, even though other types of grammatical aspects are.
Distribución de la información y clasificación de las cláusulas con “un(a)(s)(os)…que”
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Borzi, Claudia
Claudia BORZI: Distribution of Information and Classification of Clauses with un(a)(s)(os) … que. When one reads (1) Trajeron un vino que ni te cuento and (2) Trajeron un vino tinto que habían envasado en Mendoza, with an unstressed intonation, all Spanish speakers perceive a difference in the pragmatic meaning, and identify in (1) highlighting values that are not present in (2). Moreover, the cases studied provided uses such as (3) Esos conos pequeños y muy pesados (hechos de un metal que no es de este mundo) son imagen de la divinidad, en ciertas religiones de Tlön [JLBF32], which is a use that cannot easily be included in the cases repre-sented by (1) and (2). This is because in (3) an explicit valorization is present that does not have the same force patent in (1). The work at hand deals with this problem.
Esquemas sintácticos de formación de locuciones adverbiales
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) García-Page Sánchez, Mario
Mario GARCÍA-PAGE: Syntactic Structures in the Formation of Adverbial Locutions. This article is an essentially descriptive study focused on determining the principal syntactic structures used in the formation of adverbial locutions in Spanish. The work at hand reveals, according to the data from this corpus, that the most recurrent structure which adverbial locutions can adopt is the prepositional syntagma. Mainly, they start with the prepositions a, en, and de (a regañadientes, en pinganitos, de carrerilla), while the structure of the adverbial syntagma is hardly representative. There are also a few instances of the binomial structure (tarde o temprano), the subordinate proposition (como quien oye llover) and the nominal syntagma (un montón).
La formación de adjetivos denominales a partir de zoónimos en español
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Lisyová, Ol'ga
Ol’ga LISYOVÁ: Formation of Denominal Adjectives from Zoonyms in Spanish. The main base of classification for adjectives is the complex semantic - word producing criterion. By understanding the linguistic signum in its dialectic unity, in Slavic philology three types of adjectives are traditionally selected: possessive, relative, and qualitative. The presence or absence of two basic features (the capability of derivation and graduation) determines the position of individual adjectives on the axis, beginning, on the one end, with possessive adjectives and ending, at the other, with qualitative adjectives. In this article, we consider the position of the adjectives formed from “animal” substantives in Spanish. The apparatus for word formation is studied and the most productive suffixes are selected. Based on the corpus analyzed here, the main semantic and word producing differences between possessive adjectives in Slovak and in Spanish are pointed out, and certain possibilities of their classification are discussed.
Entonación del español peninsular en habla espontánea: patrones melódicos y márgenes de dispersión
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Cantero Serena, Francisco José; Font Rotchés, Dolors
Francisco José CANTERO SERENA e Dolors FONT ROTCHÉS : Intonation of Peninsular Spanish in Spontaneous Speech: melodic patterns and dispersion margins. In this study, we present the results of our research on the intonation of spontaneous speech in Peninsular Spanish, done at the Laboratory of Applied Phonetics (Universidad de Barcelona). We start from a corpus of over six hours of recordings, with a total of 57 anonymous informants and 136 enunciations, which had already been classified according to the method of melodic analysis of speech (AMH) as developed in our center. The aim of this study was to determine and establish the melodic patterns of our corpus (the most frequent intonational contours, as types of variants of Spanish tonemes) and their margins of dispersion. We found a total of 15 melodic patterns: the pattern of a neutral intonation, 4 variants of interrogative intonation, 3 variants of suspended intonation and 7 variants of emphatic intonation. These patterns can be used as models of reliable intonation, both in the teaching of Spanish as well as in synthesis and speech recognition.
Usos de “cual”, Grupo Acentual y Unidad Melódica
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Alcoba Rueda, Santiago
Santiago ALCOBA RUEDA: Uses of el cual, Clitic Group and Intonational Phrase. First, this study focuses briefly on the choice in Spanish to use the relative pronoun el cual due to its flexible properties of being able to serve the condition of perspicuity, of univocal identification of the antecedent noun correferential with the relative pronoun. I will then be referring to the other not as clear aspect of choosing el cual: its condition of being a stressed word. Indeed, it is unlike all other Spanish relative pronouns, which are unstressed. This latter aspect deals with the distinction between certain preferential usages and others that are exclusive to el cual; and then attempts to justify and argue the phonological fundaments of some of the exclusive uses of el cual. Therefore, this will establish how the choice of a certain lexical form, of a certain relative pronoun, el cual, is conditioned by its phonetic nature, by being a stressed word, and by the distribution in the sequence of the Clitic Group and the Intonational Phrases of the sentence. In some cases, it is the syllabic extension of the Spanish Clitic Group or the number of syllables, that demands the exclusive use of the relative el cual. And, since it is a stressed word, it is able to form a Clitic Group around it. In other cases, this use is determined by the presence of a necessary boundary of an Intonational Phrase, which requires the presence
Sobre la relación entre el lenguaje y la comunicación animal
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2008) Longa Martínez, Víctor Manuel
Víctor M. LONGA: On the Relationship Between Language and Animal Communication. The relationship between animal communication and human language has been and is very controversial. Many authors defend continuism, according to which language is derived from animal communication by way of a process of descent-with-modification. This assumption has led to the proposal of primitive forms of language for numerous species. The work at hand critically analyzes this strong continuism and offers arguments which point to its infeasibility. At the same time, it suggests that the available evidence does not allow one to go beyond a weak continuism, limited to some general abilities (that is to say, not linguistic nor prelinguistic per se) of the vocal and conceptual type. Finally, it defends that it is not possible to track reasonable antecedents of the lexical, and above all of the syntactic type.

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