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In:Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact
Edited by Patrícia Amaral and Ana Maria Carvalho
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 1] 2014
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Dequeísmo and queísmo in Portuguese 
and Spanish

 | Australian National University
Published online: 30 October 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.1.06can
This chapter explores the nature and scope of two non-normative phenomena typical of Portuguese and Spanish: dequeísmo and queísmo. In so doing, it concentrates on specific goals: to establish coherent definitions for both languages that provide a lens through which to re-examine the data, to test the scope of the existing labels – both in the present and in the past–, to highlight discrepancies in the analyses presented in literature, and finally to comment on the theoretical implications derived from such tasks.
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