Ambiguous Agreement, Functional Compensation, and Nonspecific "tu" in the Spanish of San Juan, Puerto Rico and Madrid, Spain.

Cameron, Richard

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ERIC Number: EJ494942

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Publication Date: 1993

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Ambiguous Agreement, Functional Compensation, and Nonspecific "tu" in the Spanish of San Juan, Puerto Rico and Madrid, Spain.

Cameron, Richard

Language Variation and Change, v5 n3 p305-34 1993

Investigated the potential correlation of agreement marking with the expression of pronominal subjects in the speech of 10 Spanish speakers from Puerto Rico and 10 from Spain. The results show not only similar patterns of pronominal expression but also similar rankings of constraints on pronominal expression in both dialects. (MDM)

Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Language Variation, Pronouns, Puerto Ricans, Spanish Speaking, Verbs

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Puerto Rico; Spain

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