The absence of concordance between the dative clitic and its nominal referent
Journal Title: Textos en Proceso - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
This paper offers an insight on the description of the syntactic agreement between the singular dative pronoun and its nominal referent in a Spanish-written corpus. In particular, we focus on the comparison of examples such as (1) Les voy a hacer un juicio a Twitter e Instagram [I’m going to sue Twitter and Instagram] and (2) No le vamos a crear problemas a los diplomáticos [We won’t create problems for diplomats], the latter demonstrating lack of agreement. The main aim of this study is to offer evidence leading to a possible semantic depletion of the dative pronoun, given the fact that the process of generalized duplication of the indirect object may provoke that the dative clitic become a certain type of objective morpheme to the verb (Company, 2006) or a legitimizer of the oblique object (Navarro, 2005), and in turn undermine its value as argument participant (Torres Cacoullos, 2005). This would lead to the lack of agreement in number between the singular dative pronoun and its plural noun referent. Given such aim, we analyze whether the le pronoun and its noun referent are coreferential, with a view to determine if the lack of agreement furnishes evidence of a weakened referential ability of the dative pronoun. This paper seeks to examine if the clitic counts as an anaphor, in such cases in which an antecedent construction in agreement exists, or as an incorporated clitic, when no such agreement with the noun phrase serving as indirect object is offered. Following the principles of this theoretical perspective, linguistic forms are described through a careful attention to the real contexts of appearance, and their analysis includes the measurement of statistical significance and the accountability of the data through objective means. Therefore, this work methodology takes on a qualitative and quantitative approach, and resorts to the collection of corpora of authentic texts hailing from the present-day Argentinian written press.
Authors and Affiliations
Vanina García Barbeito, Julieta Murata Missagh, Silvina Peri
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- EP ID EP448397
- DOI 10.17710/tep.2017.3.2.1barbeito
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