Inflected infinitives in Galician
This study uses an audio-questionnaire, supplemented by spoken corpus data, to probe the acceptability of Galician inflected infinitives in different syntactic contexts. Our results reveal that inflected infinitives in Galician are acceptable in a different range of contexts than in closely related Portuguese, and also in a broader range of contexts than previously reported for this language. Intra-speaker variation appears to correlate most strongly with L1 (Spanish/Galician) and gender, with a trend for men and L1 Spanish speakers to be more accepting of the inflected infinitive.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background to the present study
- 2.1The distribution of inflected infinitives in Portuguese
- 2.2Normative pressures and prescriptive norms
- 2.3Attestation in spoken corpora
- 3.Methodology
- 4.Results and discussion
- 5.Conclusion
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Notes
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