Els clítics pronominals preposats i posposats en català: anàlisi i comparació

"Pero se escondíamos como las ratas": syncretism in the reflexive paradigm in Spanish and Catalan

“…43 Bonet (1984: 138) agrees that the syncretism is excluded when there is no subject-object coreference and that it can only appear in reflexive contexts. Perea (2012), as previously mentioned, considers the syncretism to be a phonetic phenomenon. She attests it (in the 5 th and in the 4 th persons) both in Alcover's material and in the COD questionnaire.…”

“…Actually, out of 8 interviews (Elx, La Vila Joiosa, Alacant, Sueca (Alacant), L'Alcora, Morella (Castelló), Llíria and València (València)), only one case of 5 th person reflexive verbal forms and 13 cases of 4 th person reflexive verbal forms were found (none of them with the syncretism). I will thus be using the data from the COD questionnaires (not available online) as presented in Perea (2012) and from Alcover's materials as presented in Perea (2012) and Alcover & Moll (1968). 22 In the remainder of this section I will describe these data and propose a hypothesis regarding the diachronic extension of se to other persons in Spanish.…”

“…According to Perea (2012), reduced realizations of the 4 th and 5 th clitics nos/ens and vos/us as s (or z) or, with a support vowel, se, are frequently found in both positions. That is to say, in Catalan, phonetic reasons may cause the syncretism between the 3 rd person reflexive pronoun and the 4 th and 5 th pronoun in many varieties.…”

“…These materials include Alcover's fieldwork notebooks and the data in "La flexió verbal en els dialectes catalans" and "Estudis de Sintaxis dialectal catalana" (edited in two parts in 1916, Bolletí del diccionari de la llengua catalana (BDLC), IX (11-37 and 49-63), see Perea (2012)). …”

“…In all the works mentioning the phenomenon I have managed to review, those two are, actually, the only ones that do not present a reflexive meaning or are in a clitic cluster. In map 6 I have charted the geographical distribution of the reflexive examples compiled by Perea (2012) and Alcover & Moll (1968) Although with these highly unsystematic data I do not dare propose a diachronic evolutionary path, a few details are interesting to note. On the one hand, map 4 (which charts the ALPI data for imperative sentences) already presents some data on the syncretism in Catalan.…”