Sociolinguistic Factors in Grammatical Change: The Expression of the Future in Canarian Spanish

Peralta, Marina Díaz; Almeida, Manuel

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“…Even in Spain, where grammarians have traditionally conferred a certain degree of strength on the former-a vigor that is now largely unknown in much of Latin America-it is difficult to find similar samples in anything other than the written language (Blas Arroyo, 2000). Although the absence of variationist studies on the Spanish peninsula hampers any kind of comparison, authors such as Díaz Peralta and Almeida (2000) have recently drawn attention to the revitalization of the inflectional future in some varieties in the Canary Islands (Gran Canaria). According to these authors, this change from above is driven, among other reasons, by imitation of the more prestigious models from the peninsula.…”

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“…This has led some authors to talk of a linguistic change in progress (Díaz Peralta & Almeida, 2000;Gutiérrez, 1995). In the case of another Spanish community-the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria-the differences between the age groups are not very pronounced, but they are also significant and display the same bias as in the Castellón region.…”

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“…The greater tendency toward the use of MF (71%) rather than PF (29%) in the case of ir (or its equivalent form) has already been observed in other speech communities, within Spanish-speaking territories (Díaz Peralta & Almeida, 2000;Orozco, 2005) and in other linguistic domains (see Poplack & Melvar [2007] for Portuguese ;Poplack & Tagliamonte [2001] for early stages of the African American English; and Singler [1984] for Liberian English). A number of reasons, which can also be applied to the Castellón corpus, have been put forward to explain this.…”

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“…Additionally, in Spanish cities such as Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where MF seems to be displaying a renewed vitality, it is being encouraged by the upper classes, but not across the whole social spectrum; rather it is being bolstered by females from the first generations, and males appear to be more reluctant to change. This leads the authors of this research (Díaz Peralta & Almeida, 2000) to defend the hypothesis of a change from above to account for the recovery of usages of MF, which is endorsed by some of the groups that most stand out when it comes to promoting linguistic changes based on the prestige of certain variants.…”

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The variable expression of future tense in Peninsular Spanish: The present (and future) of inflectional forms in the Spanish spoken in a bilingual region

Arroyo

2008

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In line with trends observed in other Spanish and Romance-speaking regions, the morphological future tense MF (cantaré) is declining in the Castellón speech community (Spain) in favor of the periphrastic variant PF (voy a cantar) for the expression of future events. The multivariate analysis shows the relevance of some linguistic factors in this process, mainly the degree of proximity of the act of speech, the sentence and epistemic modality, the degree of adverbial specification, the class of verbs and, to a lesser extent, the semantic category of the subject (agency), and the types of clause and text. All in all, MF still enjoys a substantial vitality in this Spanish region unknown in other Hispanic areas and that can be related to a convergence process with Catalan, the other language of the region which shares a single variant for expressing the future, namely, the morphological form. Some additional data obtained from 191 interviews of the Sociolinguistic Corpus of Castellón (CSCS) point out the relevance of social factors related with the density of the bilingual population in the speech community, both at the collective and individual levels. The vernacular profile of this MF, favored and retained for the most autochthones elements of society, also clashes with the sociolinguistic profile of this variant in other Spanish-speaking areas where the process of substitution has been described in many cases as a change for below. In sum, language contact can slow down and alter some linguistic change much more advanced in monolingual communities.

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Section: J O S é L U I S B L a S A R R O Y Omentioning

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The variable expression of future tense in Peninsular Spanish: The present (and future) of inflectional forms in the Spanish spoken in a bilingual region

Arroyo

2008

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“…However, the MF has been shown to be more frequent in Peninsular varieties of the Canary Islands (e.g. Almeida & Díaz Peralta 1998, Díaz Peralta & Almeida 2000 and Castellón (e.g. Blas Arroyo 2008).…”

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Assessing the Use of Multiple Forms in Variable Contexts: The Relationship between Linguistic Factors and Future-Time Reference in Spanish

Gudmestad

Geeslin

2011

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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The current study represents a detailed examination of the linguistic variables that are significantly related to verb-form use in contexts of future-time reference for advanced learners and native speakers of Spanish. The results show that the factors lexical temporal indicator, clause type and temporal distance are related to the verb forms that both groups use to express the function of futurity and that (un)certainty and grammatical person and number are only important for native speakers, thus demonstrating that the learners have not yet reached native-like use of this variable structure. In addition to providing more information on the variable use of futuretime reference for native and non-native speakers, the investigation makes methodological advancements in the study of morphosyntactic variation by defining a token by the function it performs in communication and by examining the full range of verb forms speakers use to fulfill this function.

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Social role effects on English particle verb variation fail to replicate

Lee

MacKenzie

2023

Can. J. Linguist.

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The English particle verb alternation has been argued to be sensitive to the social role occupied by speakers on radio broadcasts; Kroch and Small (1978) argue that radio show hosts and in-studio guests’ greater sensitivity to prescriptive norms makes them more likely to use the joined variant of the alternation than listeners calling in to the show. This study analyzes 10,521 tokens of variable particle verbs from the RadioTalk Corpus (Beeferman et al. 2019) to try to replicate the effect of speaker role. Our analysis confirms that direct object length, register, a measure of frequency, semantic compositionality of the particle verb, and the particle's prosody all condition the alternation. However, the effect of social role does not replicate.

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Sociolinguistic Factors in Grammatical Change: The Expression of the Future in Canarian Spanish

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

The variable expression of future tense in Peninsular Spanish: The present (and future) of inflectional forms in the Spanish spoken in a bilingual region

The variable expression of future tense in Peninsular Spanish: The present (and future) of inflectional forms in the Spanish spoken in a bilingual region

Assessing the Use of Multiple Forms in Variable Contexts: The Relationship between Linguistic Factors and Future-Time Reference in Spanish

Social role effects on English particle verb variation fail to replicate

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