Programm StuTS 69 + TaCoS 2021

In this talk, I will compare two different phenomena of agreement with direct objects in diachronic data of Spanish. I focus on Past Participle Agreement in Old Spanish (see Macpherson 1967) and Clitic Doubling in Argentinean Spanish, especially Spanish of Buenos Aires (see Suñer 1988; Zdrojewski 2014). For the analysis, the concept of grammaticalization following Lehmann (2002) will be used. The question of this talk is the following: What is the role of grammaticalization in direct object agreement in the development from Old Spanish with Past Participle Agreement to Modern Argentinean Spanish with Clitic Doubling?

In this talk, I will compare two different phenomena of agreement with direct objects in diachronic data of Spanish. I focus on Past Participle Agreement in Old Spanish (1) and Clitic Doubling in Argentinean Spanish (2), especially Spanish of Buenos Aires.

(1) Old Spanish – 12th century (“Auto de los Reyes Magos” 1965,146; cited after Macpherson 1967)
no la auemos usada
‚we have not used it (fem.)’

(2) Modern Spanish of Buenos Aires (Zdrojewski & Sánchez 2014:164)
las saludé a las maestras del jardín
‘I greeted the teachers (fem.) from the kindergarten’

Past Participle Agreement is the agreement between the past participle like “usada” in (1) and the direct object, here the pronoun “la” (both [+fem.] and [+sg.]. Clitic Doubling is a phenomenon where the object, “las maestras del jardín” in (2), and the clitic pronoun for the same object, “las” in (2), occur in the same sentence. They also show agreement, here: [+fem.] and [+pl.] for both.
For the analysis, the concept of grammaticalization following Lehmann (2002) and language data of research on Past Participle Agreement in Old Spanish (see Macpherson 1967) and Clitic Doubling in Modern Argentinean Spanish (see Suñer 1988; Zdrojewski 2014) will be put together to answer the question of this talk: What is the role of grammaticalization in direct object agreement in the development from Old Spanish with Past Participle Agreement to Modern Argentinean Spanish with Clitic Doubling?
The idea of language change as spirals already existed in the time of Von der Gabelentz (1891). This and the fact, that Past Participle Agreement consists of suffixes and Clitic Doubling consists of clitics, it seems reasonable to not expect that Clitic Doubling in Modern Argentinean Spanish shows a higher degree of grammaticalization than the properties of Past Participle Agreement in Old Spanish. In fact, the hypothesis of this talk is that there are more interferences in the development of direct object agreement in Spanish, that grammaticalization is only part of the explanation. This idea is in line with other work on object agreement for Spanish, e.g. Melis & Flores (2009).

References:
Lehmann, Christian. 2002. Thoughts on Grammaticalization. 2. revised edition. Erfurt: Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität. ASSidUE 9.
Macpherson, Ian. 1967. “Past Participle Agreement in Old Spanish: Transitive Verbs”, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 44, 4: 241–254.
Melis, Chatal & Flores, Marcela. 2009. “On the interplay between forces of erosion and forces of repair in language change. A case study”, Folia linguistica historica 43. Historica vol. 30, 271–310.
Suñer, Margarita 1988. “The Role of Agreement in Clitic-Doubled Constructions”, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 6: 391–434.
Von der Gabelentz, Georg. 1891. Die Sprachwissenschaft: Ihre Aufgaben, Methoden und bisherigen Ergebnisse. Leipzig: Weigel Nachfolger.
Zdrojewski, Pablo & Sánchez, Liliana. 2014. “Variation in accusative clitic doubling across three Spanish dialects”, Lingua 151: 162–176.

Literary text:
Anonymous. 1965. “Auto de los Reyes Magos”, in: Menéndez Pidal, Ramón/ Lapesa, Rafael & Soledad de Andrés, María (eds.). Crestomatía del español medieval. Madrid: Editorial Gregos. [The original text of “Auto de los Reyes Magos” comes from the 12th century according to Macpherson 1967].

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Tag: 07.05.2021
Anfangszeit: 11:30
Dauer: 00:30
Raum: green
Track: Historical & Comparative
Sprache: en

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