marco@work - The gerund in Ecuadorian Spanish

Vooral het tweede onderdeel van A modular approach to sociolinguistic variation in syntax - The gerund in Ecuadorian Spanish door Pieter Muysken, waarin een overzicht van modellen voor syntactische variatie wordt gegeven, was voor mij het lezen waard.

Deze tekst maakt deel uit van het studiemateriaal bij de cursus Syntactic variation die wordt gegeven door Leonie Cornips in het kader van de LOT Winter School 2004.

Introduction:
" This paper deals with the use of a complex construction, the Spanish gerund, in a highly stratified, partially bilingual (Quechua-Spanish), community in Andean Ecuador. On the basis of the data presented, it is argued that a modular approach to syntactic variation is needed to explain the range of the variation encountered. First, a number of approaches to syntactic variation will be briefly reviewed, which are then evaluated in terms of three pairs of oppositions: choice versus determiners, derivational versus configurational paradigms, outer form manifestations versus inner form parameters. After a brief overview of the modular approach presented here, the speech community and the syntactic variable analyzed are presented. Then I turn to the quantitative results, which are then analyzed in a modular perspective."