Dialects and Diachronic Syntax: Free Relatives in Old Spanish.

Rivero, Maria-Luisa

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Dialects and Diachronic Syntax: Free Relatives in Old Spanish.

Rivero, Maria-Luisa

Journal of Linguistics, v22 n2 p443-54 Sep 1986

Discusses and compares the syntactic features of free relative clauses found in Castilian and Aragonese dialects of Old Spanish. The role of clitics (nontonic pronominals) and the lexical innovations of the wh-question compound-type clauses are highlighted. (TR)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Grammar, Language Classification, Language Research, Language Variation, Lexicology, Questioning Techniques, Spanish, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Syntax

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