In:Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies
Edited by Cecilia Montes-Alcalá and Miguel García
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 42] 2025
► pp. 8–32
Chapter 1Lexical routinization and productivity of subjunctive use in
Spanish
Published online: 15 May 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.42.01cal
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.42.01cal
Abstract
This study explores the role of the lexical
identity of the governor in mood variation among Spanish-English
bilinguals in Southern Arizona. Based on an analysis of
sociolinguistic interviews from the Corpus del Español en el
Sur de Arizona (Carvalho, 2012-), productivity measures indicate that
subjunctive use is lexically routinized to some degree as it is
affected by individual governing verbs. The analysis also reveals
certain level of subjunctive productivity due to its dispersion
across different contexts, evidenced by the high incidence of cases
of hapax legomena. Comparisons with previous research (LaCasse, 2018; Poplack et al., 2018; Torres Cacoullos et al.,
2017) uncover similar patterns across Southern Arizona
and other regions, pointing to clear continuities across monolingual
and bilingual Spanish.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Mood selection in the traditional perspective
- 3.Lexical routinization of subjunctive and the case of Spanish
- 4.Methodology
- 4.1The corpus and participants
- 4.2Envelope of variation and extraction protocol
- 4.3Productivity measures
- 5.Results
- 6.Final considerations
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