Le: from pronoun to verbal intensifier

Cacoullos, Rena Torres

doi:10.1515/ling.2002.013

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“…One possible development that can be established along these lines is the use of the dative clitic as an intensifier or verb modifier in Mexican Spanish. This is a relatively well-known and highly productive phenomenon in this variety where the dative clitic appears with either a transitive or intransitive verb to express an intensive meaning as in (5) ( Torres Cacoullos, 2002 ; Navarro-Ibarra, 2007 ; Navarro and Espinal, 2012 ). Crucially, in this innovative use, the dative clitic can alternate with the accusative.…”

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Co-occurrence Strength and Transitivity Effects on Spanish Clitic Case Variation With Reverse-Psychological Predicates

Guajardo

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Although the most frequent psychological predicates in Spanish require the third-person clitic experiencer to appear in dative case, there is a well-known subclass of predicates for which the case of the clitic alternates between accusative and dative. This alternation has been previously accounted for by certain grammatical properties of the clause containing the clitic as well as elements of transitivity. However, since most studies on the subject have only looked at a subset of the elements comprising transitivity, it remains to be demonstrated whether the alternation in clitic case can reliably be reduced to a difference in transitivity. In this paper, I study the extent to which transitivity is the main predictor of clitic case alternation with reverse psychological predicates by comparing its effect with another potential predictor, namely the bidirectional association strength between the verb and the clitic. The results show that higher levels of association between the clitic and the verb favor the dative clitic, suggesting a higher degree of lexicalization of the dative clitic-verb pair. Furthermore, although it is found that higher levels of transitivity favor the accusative clitic, the effect is rather small compared to the rest of the predictors. All in all, the results support previous findings in the literature, but they also bring to the fore the importance of frequency of co-occurrence on Spanish clitic case alternation in particular, and language variation more generally.

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Co-occurrence Strength and Transitivity Effects on Spanish Clitic Case Variation With Reverse-Psychological Predicates

Guajardo

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Con respecto al oi, en el corpus se constató la coocurrencia del pronombre dativo con un oi léxico o un oi en forma de sintagma oblicuo (a + pronombre oblicuo) en la casi totalidad de las cláusulas, independientemente de la posición del oi en relación con el verbo finito; es decir, tanto en doblados de clítico en sentido estricto como en dislocaciones. Esto corrobora la misma tendencia registrada para todas las variedades del español estudiadas (véase, entre muchos otros, Rini, 1991;Bogard, 1992;Fernández Soriano, 1999;Company, 2002;Torres Cacoullos, 2002;Flores y Melis, 2004), aunque esta tendencia se presente "en diferentes estados de evolución y ofrezca grados de gramaticalización muy diversos" (Flores y Melis, 2004, p. 353). La cuantificación de los datos encontrados en nuestro corpus muestra que el grado de gramaticalización de la realización del clítico de oi es casi absoluto (de un 99%), comparable a la proporción entre 90% y 96%, "cercana a un uso absoluto" (Company, 2002, p. 52), que se documentó en la variedad mexicana.…”

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Los pronombres clíticos de tercera persona en el corpus PRESEEA-Medellín

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Ariza³

2022

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This paper describes the analysis of the form, function and distribution of third person object clitic pronouns in the corpus PRESEEA-Medellín, and aims to widen the knowledge of clitic pronouns’ morphosyntactic variation in different Spanish varieties. Our findings show that the selection of the forms lo(s), la(s) and le(s) is determined by case, gender and number, independently of the animate/inanimate or continuous/discontinuous nature of the referent, which corresponds to the use of a case distinguishing system. The grammaticalization process of indirect object (IO) doubling is almost absolute (99%), and the depronominalization of le in presence of a canonic io shows an advanced degree, considering that in 61.5% cases the dative singular clitic le cooccured with a plural lexical IO in canonic position, a tendency reported for many other varieties of Spanish (see Fernández Soriano, 1999; Company, 2002; Huerta, 2005; Mojedano, 2014).

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“…Torres Cacoullos (2002) proposes that le is a sort of verb intensifier that denotes "the doing of the action", however, formally le is nothing more than an expletive. Prima facie le causes intensification, but we think that this "intensification" is only a pragmatic consequence of something else.…”

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Dikken¹

2013

The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

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generativa", in 2007 at its 33rd edition, started in the 70's as an informal meeting for Italian scholars working on this, at time quite new, grammatical approach. Evolved into an important international meeting at the beginning of the 90s, it has since then remained a significant moment of debate for scholars interested in formalization in grammar. The proceedings here collected are just a part of the talks given at the 33rd Incontro, held in Bologna from 1 st to 3 rd March 2007. The talks there presented were numerous and ranged over a wide varieties of fields of research in grammar: not only those that we could call 'traditional' as phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, but also language acquisition and pathology have been taken into account. Contributions in these proceedings, even though limited in number, are an excellent example of richness in contemporary linguistics research and evidence of the attraction that formal linguistics holds on young researchers, which a part of relations was reserved for. We have chosen to divide this collection into subject fields: phonology, morphology, syntax and language acquisition.

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Le: from pronoun to verbal intensifier

Cited by 30 publications

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Co-occurrence Strength and Transitivity Effects on Spanish Clitic Case Variation With Reverse-Psychological Predicates

Co-occurrence Strength and Transitivity Effects on Spanish Clitic Case Variation With Reverse-Psychological Predicates

Los pronombres clíticos de tercera persona en el corpus PRESEEA-Medellín

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