Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks In Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Theories and Approaches to Spanish Linguistics
- 1 Generative Linguistics: Syntax
- 2 Optimality Theory and Spanish/Hispanic Linguistics
- 3 Usage-Based Approaches to Spanish Linguistics
- 4 Functional-Typological Approaches to Hispanic Linguistics
- 5 Psycholinguistic Approaches to Hispanic Linguistics
- 6 Corpus Approaches to the Study of Language, Variation, and Change
- Part II The Spanish Sound System
- Part III Spanish Morphosyntax and Meaning
- Part IV Spanish in Social, Geographic, and Historical Contexts
- Part V The Acquisition of Spanish
- Index
- References
6 - Corpus Approaches to the Study of Language, Variation, and Change
from Part I - Theories and Approaches to Spanish Linguistics
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks In Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Theories and Approaches to Spanish Linguistics
- 1 Generative Linguistics: Syntax
- 2 Optimality Theory and Spanish/Hispanic Linguistics
- 3 Usage-Based Approaches to Spanish Linguistics
- 4 Functional-Typological Approaches to Hispanic Linguistics
- 5 Psycholinguistic Approaches to Hispanic Linguistics
- 6 Corpus Approaches to the Study of Language, Variation, and Change
- Part II The Spanish Sound System
- Part III Spanish Morphosyntax and Meaning
- Part IV Spanish in Social, Geographic, and Historical Contexts
- Part V The Acquisition of Spanish
- Index
- References
Summary
The purpose of this chapter is to provide the reader with an introduction to corpus approaches focusing on the research on Spanish variable phenomena. The chapter also offers some introductory information on corpora in Spanish as well as resources and toolkits for searching and statistical analyses. The second part of the chapter illustrates a corpus analysis based on data from Mexico City and Malaga from ‘Project for the sociolinguistic study of the Spanish of Spain and America’. The findings reveal that that the periphrastic future (PF) in the Mexican data set has become much more generalized as the default future expression, while in Malaga, they maintain a more conservative, slower rate of change. The variable rule analysis demonstrates that predictive factors of the use of PF versus morphological future (MF) were region, person, clause type and sentence type. In contrast to traditional analysis, the corpus analysis demonstrates that the distinction between PF and MF is not based on temporal proximity, showing the need to further investigate the linguistic co
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