Abstract

AVILA, Antonio Manuel  and  SEGURA LORES, Alba. Sociolinguistic Predictors in the Expression of the Pronominal Subject in the PRESEEA-Málaga Corpus. Low Educational Level. Anu. let. lingüíst. filol. [online]. 2022, vol.10, n.2, pp.57-94.  Epub Dec 12, 2022. ISSN 2448-8224.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.adel.2022.10.2.x00s25872.

The absence or presence of the subject personal pronoun is a linguistic phe­nomenon typical of pro-drop languages. This paper initiates a series of studies that try to find the linguistic and social determinants that affect the occurrence of this pronoun in the variety of Spanish spoken in Malaga (Spain). We show partial results concerning speakers with a low educational level obtained from the study of the first linguistic corpus of the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and American in Malaga (PRESEEA-Malaga) collected in the 1990s. For this purpose, we assume the methodology employed in other studies within the framework of the pan-Hispanic PRESEEA project to compare the results obtained. We use the Coding Guide for the variable “expression of the pronominal subject” (Bentivoglio, Ortiz and Silva-Corvalán, 2011), although we have updated and adapted it. The exploratory analysis helps us to broadly compare the percentages of pronoun presence with previous studies carried out in different Spanish-speaking geographical areas. The correlation analysis allows us to observe which predictor variables favour its presence or omission and to assess whether there are similarities with the data from the corpora of Málaga (2015) and other cities such as Granada (2016), Seville (2019) and Valencia (2021), to finally establish a possible linguistic pattern.

Keywords : subject personal pronoun; preseea; Malaga; predictor variables; sociolinguistics.

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