Grammaticalization of Spanish 'De': Reanalysis of (De)queismo in Southern Cone Dialects

The findings of the study also suggest that dequeismo and queismo are variants of the same sociolinguistic variable in Southern Cone Spanish because both variants are regulated by the same linguistic factors, i.e., types of verbs, syntactic structures, grammatical person, and tense in the main clause. Secondly, (de) queismo seems to constitute a change in progress because it is a stable, long-term variation that has persisted over many centuries. Thirdly, the variation between Southern Cone dialects in the use of (de) queismo reflects different semantic nuances of de ; hence, different grammaticalization stages.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Spanish

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Del Moral, Carlos Gabriel

Contributors dc:contributor

• Escobar, Anna Maria

• History, Latin American

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3153285

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86133