A formal analysis of lip-pointing in Latin-American Spanish

The present research focuses on the understudied interface between syntax and gesture within the emerging field of the dialectal syntax of Spanish. In particular, a formal analysis of so-called lip-pointing in various Latin-American varieties of Spanish is developed. Evidence is provided for the a...

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Autor principal:	Ivan Ortega-Santos
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2016
Materias:	gesture Spanish syntax dialectal variation deixis Latin-American Spanish Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:108f32cf13824a99b82fbba5a42c7bb22021-11-25T11:16:44ZA formal analysis of lip-pointing in Latin-American Spanish2385-4138https://doaj.org/article/108f32cf13824a99b82fbba5a42c7bb22016-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.es/isogloss/isogloss/article/view/41https://doaj.org/toc/2385-4138 The present research focuses on the understudied interface between syntax and gesture within the emerging field of the dialectal syntax of Spanish. In particular, a formal analysis of so-called lip-pointing in various Latin-American varieties of Spanish is developed. Evidence is provided for the availability of deictic adverbs realized as pointing gestures and, most importantly, gestural pronominals, that is to say, gestures which fulfill a nominal function. The discussion provides evidence for Jouitteau’s (2004, 2007) multi-channeled syntax hypothesis, which states that even in oral languages the externalization procedure may include a gestural component as part of their syntax. Ivan Ortega-SantosUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticlegestureSpanish syntaxdialectal variationdeixisLatin-American SpanishRomanic languagesPC1-5498Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENIsogloss, Vol 2, Iss 2 (2016)
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topic	gesture Spanish syntax dialectal variation deixis Latin-American Spanish Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	gesture Spanish syntax dialectal variation deixis Latin-American Spanish Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Ivan Ortega-Santos A formal analysis of lip-pointing in Latin-American Spanish
description	The present research focuses on the understudied interface between syntax and gesture within the emerging field of the dialectal syntax of Spanish. In particular, a formal analysis of so-called lip-pointing in various Latin-American varieties of Spanish is developed. Evidence is provided for the availability of deictic adverbs realized as pointing gestures and, most importantly, gestural pronominals, that is to say, gestures which fulfill a nominal function. The discussion provides evidence for Jouitteau’s (2004, 2007) multi-channeled syntax hypothesis, which states that even in oral languages the externalization procedure may include a gestural component as part of their syntax.
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A formal analysis of lip-pointing in Latin-American Spanish

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