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Fórmulas De Tratamiento En Ocaña, Colombia, Liceth Bohorquez Leon

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The paradigm of forms of address has been a recurrent topic of study from a sociolinguistic perspective. Voseo, tuteo and ustedeo are the forms of address used in the Hispanic world. Voseo expreses confidence and familiarity, while tuteo same as voseo, denotes confidence and familiarity. Finally, ustedeo has a connotation of formality, respect and distance. This thesis aims to examine how forms of address are used in Ocaña, Colombia, and the relationship between their use and the social factors that affect the choice of pronoun. To achieve this aim, a sociolinguistic survey was applied to 88 participants. The …

Variable Subject Pronoun Expression In The Spanish Of Londombia: A Study Of Language Contact In Canada, Angelica Hernandez Constantin

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According to the extended projection principle, subjects are mandatory in tensed clauses (Chomsky 1982). Languages, however, vary in their use of null and overt subjects. Languages like English, which are [-null subject] languages, require overt subjects (1a), rendering phrases with null subjects ungrammatical (1b), while languages like Spanish, which are [+ null subject] languages, allow for both overt (2a) and null subjects (2b).

(1) a. She wants bread.

b. *Ø wants bread.

(2) a. Ella quiere pan.

b. Ø quiere pan.

“(She) wants bread”

In Spanish the variable use of Spanish subject personal pronouns (SPPs) has been studied in monolingual …