Ditransitive sentences in Granadian Spanish (Spain)

Abstract

It has been detected in the Spanish language the use of the facultative reduplication of the direct complement. In the Americas, there are plenty of research works explaining the feature as a result of the association of the objective conjugation of the indigenous border languages, though some linguistic factors are thought to have played their role as well. In Spain, this phenomenon has lacked a thorough attention, since, in spite of the fact that a great deal of theoretical studies have been released, so far, many of them are bereft of an analysis corpus, which may cover the current social variables; and just because of that, we hereby submit this work. After having selected some Granadian postponed reduplicated samples out of PRESEEA corpus, without leaving apart leisms, we carried out a statistical approach by welding them with non-duplicated items which, though flexing clitics, the objective concordance was possible. We reached the conclusion that different linguistic variables were noteworthy, such as the non-etymological nature of unstressed direct complement, the referent genre and some specific verbs. Learning status must be further analysed, though.