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

Abstract

In this paper I provide a description of the reflexive syncretism found in some Spanish and Catalan neighbouring varieties. In these varieties, the 3 rd person reflexive pronoun se can also appear with 1 st person plural and 2 nd person plural verbs. With dialectal data from the Audible and Spoken Corpus of Rural Spanish (COSER), the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula (ALPI) and from works of other scholars I analyse the distribution of the syncretism in order to establish what person (the 1 st plural or the 2 nd plural) it affected first. I also analyse this syncretism in other Romance languages, in order to see if the person hierarchies previously proposed in the literature are confirmed by these varieties.

Passivesein Romanian and Spanish: A subject cycle

“…This is evidenced by the lack of a requirement for a third person referent in Spec,Voice. The data in (49) below, from rural Brazilian Portuguese, taken from Nevins (2007: 308), and in (50), from a variety of peninsular Spanish, taken from Benito Moreno (2015: 107), illustrate that in the presence of se , the external argument is not third person.…”

3. Lingüística histórica y cambio gramatical 89

“…Así, me, te, nos, os actúan como reflexivos, acusativos o dativos (Me hospedo en un hotel, Me ven paseando, Me dan unas llaves). Incluso encontramos un paso ulterior, donde se (forma unívoca e inequívoca de reflexividad en las lenguas romances) puede utilizarse para cualquier persona con el fin de marcar reflexividad frente a otros matices sintácticos (Yo se lavo, nosotros se lavamos) (De Benito 2015). Este hecho no solo se ha evidenciado en español, sino en francés o italiano (Burzio 1992, Kayne 2003, y es lo normativo en ruso (Timberlake 1979).…”