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Syntactic complexity in Standard Average European: the role of language contact and DTs of Communicative Distance KU Leuven
This chapter argues that the origins of Standard Average European (SAE) are intimately related to Eastern influenced Biblical Latin and Germanic influenced Carolingian Latin. Both medieval varieties of Latin combine contact patterns with the presence of grammatical complexity in high prestige textual traditions. The impact of Classical Latin came with the later elaboration of the European vernacular languages into national standard languages ...
Syntactic alternations and socio-stylistic constraints: the case of asyndetic complementation in the history of Spanish KU Leuven
This paper analyses the alternation between complement clauses with and without complementizer (syndetic and asyndetic), in historical Spanish (15th–18th century). While previous studies have shown that this syntactic alternation was regulated by the degree of integration of the clauses, its stylistic distribution is understudied. In this paper we investigate whether the syndetic/asyndetic alternation is governed by socio-stylistic factors ...
How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions KU Leuven
It is well known that Spanish futurizing morphology is frequently used not to express futurity, but instead to formulate a hypothesis, i.e. express epistemic modality. Although this is possible with both synthetic or periphrastic future marking, the synthetic future tense is more likely to express an epistemic reading than the periphrastic future. This paper explores the relationship between futurizing morphology and sentence type on the basis ...
Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish: a diachronic probabilistic grammar account KU Leuven
This paper examines a distinctive syntactic feature of (pre)classical Spanish: asyndetic complementation (without complementizer que 'that'). While many authors regard this construction as a stylistic variant which eventually declined (i.a. Girón 2005), so far no exhaustive morphosyntactic study of the phenomenon has been presented, as previous works either have focused on only one predicate (Blas Arroyo & Porcar Miralles 2016, 2018) or do ...