The present volume aims at validating a methodological principle in the research field of Spanish historical grammar. This methodological principle exploits the variable nature of language in order to explain language change and to better understand its causes and triggering factors, as well as speakers’ motivations to adopt it. To do so, the volume carries out a detailed study of two representative phenomena from the history of Spanish from which some useful and relevant generalizations can be drawn. The method is grounded by the need of considering the geographical and, in a particular way, variational space of the features or variants at stake as a previous phase to any theoretical hypothesis about the language change process. The proposal might be considered as a reaction to a –still common in the diachronic studies of Spanish– way of conceiving variation as a non-functional, uneconomical, and heterogeneous state. Variation is, therefore, considered as an opportunity, instead of an obstacle.

Espacio variacional y cambio lingüístico en español

DEL BARRIO DE LA ROSA, Florencio
2018-01-01

Abstract

The present volume aims at validating a methodological principle in the research field of Spanish historical grammar. This methodological principle exploits the variable nature of language in order to explain language change and to better understand its causes and triggering factors, as well as speakers’ motivations to adopt it. To do so, the volume carries out a detailed study of two representative phenomena from the history of Spanish from which some useful and relevant generalizations can be drawn. The method is grounded by the need of considering the geographical and, in a particular way, variational space of the features or variants at stake as a previous phase to any theoretical hypothesis about the language change process. The proposal might be considered as a reaction to a –still common in the diachronic studies of Spanish– way of conceiving variation as a non-functional, uneconomical, and heterogeneous state. Variation is, therefore, considered as an opportunity, instead of an obstacle.
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