Project

Encima de mí or encima mío? On the Grammatical Variation in Spatial Adverbial Expressions in Peninsular Spanish

Code
01N02714
Duration
01 January 2014 → 30 September 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
dialectology Spanish variation adverbials Linguistics grammaticalisation
 
Project description

This projects examines the grammatical variation in a series of spatial adverbial expressions which are followed by a noun phrase in Peninsular Spanish. Specifically, it aims at the systematic analysis of the semantic-pragmatic and syntactic properties of two variants, encima de mí and encima mío, in a comparative diatopic perspective.