Virginia Terán
List of John Benjamins publications in which Virginia Terán is involved.
Articles
2020 Chapter 12. Proposing a tripartite intensifier system: Re, muy , and bien in Buenos Aires and Tucumán, Argentina Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Pascual y Cabo, Diego and Idoia Elola (eds.), pp. 253–272 | Chapter
Tripartite systems demonstrate how a dominant form coexists with other variants without any falling into disuse, as each occupies a particular space (Kapatsinski, 2009). Intensifiers reveal language change through rapid variability and recycling in popularity (Tagliamonte, 2008), as seen in… read more
2018 Variable past-time expression across multiple tasks in Tucumán, Argentina Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 31:2, pp. 605–637 | Article
We examine variable past-time expression in urban Tucumán, Argentina, an understudied region representative of the set of Andean varieties included in Northwestern Argentinean Spanish. We analyze the present perfect (PP) and preterit in two contexts of data collection: a sociolinguistic… read more