Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorGuajardo, Gustavo Ariel
dc.contributor.authorGoodall, Grant
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-29T09:02:11Z
dc.date.available2019-11-29T09:02:11Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-23
dc.description.abstractSubjunctive clauses in Spanish are traditionally claimed to obey Concordantia Temporum (CT), an agreement in tense between the matrix and subjunctive clauses. Treating this phenomenon literally as agreement is problematic, so an analysis in which CT falls out from general principles of tense interpretation, as in Laca (2010a), is very attractive. Nevertheless, this analysis seems to make some <i>prima facie</i> incorrect predictions. Here we test these predictions by means of a large-scale, formal sentence acceptability experiment in three countries. We show that despite superficial appearances, speakers do allow “violations” of CT (specifically, a present subjunctive clause embedded under a matrix present clause) in exactly the environment that Laca’s analysis predicts: when the context allows for a double access reading (DAR). We also find, however, that a subset of speakers also allows these violations in environments where the DAR interpretation is not possible. This finding is not predicted by Laca’s analysis, but it can be accommodated within it by positing that for those speakers, the present subjunctive form is actually unspecified for tense, a claim for which we provide independent evidence. Overall, our experimental results lend support to an analysis like Laca’s and suggest that CT can be eliminated as a separate mechanism of the grammar.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.749>http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.749</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGuajardo GA, Goodall. On the status of Concordantia Temporum in Spanish: An experimental approach. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2019;4(1)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1748954
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.749
dc.identifier.issn2397-1835
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/16748
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUbiquity Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalGlossa: a journal of general linguistics
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::General linguistics and phonetics: 011en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Allmenn språkvitenskap og fonetikk: 011en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Spanish language: 026en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Spansk språk: 026en_US
dc.titleOn the status of Concordantia Temporum in Spanish: An experimental approachen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


File(s) in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following collection(s)

Show simple item record