Variation in Latin American Spanish voseo verbs: variable endings and hybrid conjugation
Abstract
This paper is a revision of the traditional theories that explain variation in Spanish voseo endings as a regular phonetic change corrected by analogy a posteriori. Instead, I set forth a system of two parameters: a phonological one that either licenses or prohibits diphthongs on verb endings, and a morphological one that regulates whether the Spanish verb classes in -er and -ir neutralize their endings or not. Those parameters are meant to explain the synchrony of each variety, as well as the typology and the historical changes undergone by voseo forms. Finally, the distribution of tuteo and voseo is examined for the first time as a correlation between the number of marked TMA (time-mood-aspect) features and the propensity for voseo in each tense.
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