Chapter published in:
Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking worldEdited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 29] 2020
► pp. 34–54
Mood selection in a contact variety
The case of Yucatec Spanish
Kathryn Bove | New Mexico State University
Researchers have noted unique qualities of
Yucatec Spanish with regard to phonetics, syntax, and pragmatics
(Bove, 2019; Hoot, 2016; Michnowicz, 2009, 2012; Solomon, 1996, 1999). The objective of this study is
twofold: to describe mood in Yucatec Spanish and to identify how
bilingual and monolingual speakers’ mood selection differs. Results
indicate that volitional predicates categorically license
subjunctive while alternation exists under emotive and epistemic
predicates. This alternation highlights statistically significant
differences between monolingual and bilingual speakers of Yucatec
Spanish (p = 0.01 and 0.04 respectively). Emotive
predicates pattern with previous accounts of Mexican Spanish (e.g.,
Lope Blanch, 1989),
but unanticipated subjunctive selection in epistemic assertions,
interrogatives, and statements with past temporal reference
highlight a difference between monolingual and bilingual
participants.
Keywords: Yucatec Spanish, mood selection, language contact
Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.29.02bov
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.29.02bov
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