Abstract:
Style in Syntax: Investigating variation in Spanish pronoun subjects is a book that
examines the cognitive and discursive implications of syntactic variation in
Spanish subject pronouns. Spanish subject pronouns have been studied in
several varieties of Latin American Spanish (e.g., Argentina, México, Puerto
Rico and Venezuela) as well as in Peninsular Spanish (see Erker and Guy
2012), with a focus on linguistic and/or extralinguistic constraints, on contact
issues in the US, on Spanish Second Language Acquisition, and on frequencydriven
cognitive effects. Readers of this volume, which is targeted to specialists
in discourse analysis, language variation and change, and, most specifically,
morphosyntactic variation, as well as graduate students in Hispanic linguistics,
will find here an excellent source for the study of discourse analysis and its
application to syntactic variation in Spanish.
