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Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics edited by Jonathan Holmquist, Augusto Lorenzino, and Lotfi Sayahi ISBN 978-1-57473-418-8 library binding viii+192 pages publication date: 2007 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Assela Reig Alamillo and Scott A. Schwenter Null Objects and Neuter lo: A Cross-Dialectal Variationist Analysis 113-121 (complete pdf) This article examines a case of syntactic variation that has not been previously noted and studied: the Spanish neuter clitic lo and the null direct object (DO) in two monolingual dialects of the language: Mexican and Peninsular. Although the overall frequency of the phenomenon is similar in both dialects, the multivariable rule analysis of approximately 500 tokens per dialect, collected from 4 corpora, determine the factors that are significant to the occurrence of null direct objects and reveals that these are not the same in Mexico City and Madrid. |