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Defying the Standard: Resumptive Pronouns and Prepositional Phrase Chopping in Oblique Spanish Relative Clauses

Panel: 
Linguistics I
Abstract: 

This variationist quantitative study aims at explaining the alternation between Resumptive Pronouns (RPs) and Prepositional Phrase (PP) Chopping in Spanish oblique Relative Clauses. The results show that RPs are favored by animate antecedents, whereas PP-chopping is favored by inanimate antecedents.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Alvaro
Last Name: 
Cerron-Palomino
Institution: 
Arizona State University