Proclisis and polite imperatives: a dialectal mark in European Spanish?
Abstract
This paper analyses the geographical dimension of polite imperatives with proclitics in European Spanish. Its aim is to show whether, as suggested by some dialectal characterisations of the Iberian Peninsula, this phenomenon is an idiosyncratic feature of some central-northern areas, whether, on the contrary, it has become generalised to other varieties and whether, in each case, it conforms to some kind of geolectal pattern. To this end, data from several regional linguistic atlases of Peninsular Spanish are studied. The results obtained point to a dialectally conditioned phenomenon whose area of prevalence extends over a large part of central-northern Iberia, where it seems to be associated with the expression of a higher degree of politeness with respect to the enclitic solution.
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