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Roberto Mayoral Hernández and Asier Alcázar
81-90 (complete pdf)
This paper studies three factors that influence the position of frequency adverbials in written Spanish: gender (male, female), language variety (Latin American, Peninsular) and century (16th - 21st centuries). The results indicate that Latin American men prefer preverbal adverbials. Women show a stable preference for postverbal positions in all Spanish varieties. Spanish men show a slight tendency to increase the number of preverbal adverbials. The diachronic study indicates that Old Spanish had a preference for postverbal adverbials, which may point to the first stages of a diachronic evolution in Spanish syntax initiated by men.
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Selected Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics
edited by Maurice Westmoreland and Juan Antonio Thomas
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-426-3 library binding
vii+161 pages
publication date: 2008
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA