Collaborative Research Centre 1287 Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Computational, and Grammatical Aspects

C09

Limits of variability in Spanish relative complementation

PI(s): Prof. Dr. Melanie Uth

The project seeks to explore the limits of variability of relative complementation in Spanish by means of cross-linguistic comparisons of production data and acceptability judgements. Building on our previous research, we will concentrate on constructions with bare que and donde, paying particular attention to (a) the Yucatecan linguistic area (Quintana Roo, Mexico), and (b) the comparison of monolingual and bilingual speakers. The central aims will be (i) to compare the usage preferences of Yucatecan Spanish relative complementizers with those of five other varieties of American and European Spanish, and (ii) to narrow down the role of the contact language Yucatec Maya in the Yucatecan Spanish data.

Members

no photo Patrick Auhagen
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmHaus 16, Raum 1.19
(+49) 331 977-203131 christopher.patrick.auhagen@uni-potsdam.de
Universität ORCID
no photo Iñaki Cano
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmHaus 16, Raum 1.18
(+49) 331 977-203130 inaki.cano.garcia@uni-potsdam.de
Universität ORCID
no photoProf. Dr. Melanie Uth
Universität PotsdamCampus Am Neuen Palais Haus 19, Raum 4.13
(+49) 331 977-4114 melanie.uth@uni-potsdam.de
Universität

Publications

  • Peer-Reviewed: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC
  • Talk or Presentation: Talks, Presentations, Posters of the CRC
  • SFB-Related: not produced in connection with the CRC, but are thematically appropriate
  • Other: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC, but not peer-reviewed
Types of Publications
Author(s)TitleYearPublished inTypeLinks
Auhagen, P., & Uth, M.Variation of Relative Complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers.2022Languages 2022, 7(4), 279. DOI: 10.3390/languages7040279Peer-Reviewed
Auhagen, P.The syntactic ambiguity of the relative complementizer ‘donde que’ in Huari Spanish.2023Going Romance 37, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 30 November – 1 December.Talk or Presentation
Auhagen, P., Cano, I., & Uth, M.Variability in Spanish relative complementizers and its limits – first results.2023Paper presented at the General Linguistics Colloquium, Institute for Linguistics, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. 19 December.Talk or Presentation
Auhagen, P.Locative relativizer usage in mono- and bilingual speakers of Yucatecan Spanish.2024Paper presented at the Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. 10 - 12 January.Talk or Presentation
Auhagen, P., & Uth, M.On the impact of definiteness and animacy in Spanish relative complementation.2024CCLS Lecture Series, Universität zu Köln. 24 June.Talk or Presentation
Cano, I.“Lo mismo de que se hace el aguardiente”. Presencia y ausencia del artículo en las relativas oblicuas del español europeo.2024Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, 22(43), 157-178. DOI: 10.31819/rili-2024-224308Peer-Reviewed
Auhagen, P., & Fliessbach, J.Structural and sociolectal limits of variability of que in Mexican Spanish noun clefts.2024Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 10(1), 13, 1-28. DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.449Peer-Reviewed
Cano, I., Auhagen, P., Blestel, É., Sánchez Moreano, S., & Uth, M.Variabilidad de los relativizadores de las oraciones hendidas de sujeto en cinco variedades del español.2025Semas. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada, 6(11), 6-30. DOI: 10.61820/semas.2683-3301.v6n11.171Peer-Reviewed