Octavio de Toledo Y Huerta Álvaro S
Department of Spanish (Filología Española), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2019 Apr 17;10:780. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00780. eCollection 2019.
Over the turn of the 21st century, the use of data from large electronic corpora has changed research on Spanish historical syntax, spurring interest in long-range evolutions, and the shape of the correspondent diachronic curves. However, general reflections on diffusion and the factors that drive and influence it are still pretty much lacking. In this paper, I reflect on the research possibilities laid open by the availability of such large masses of data, focusing particularly on new knowledge on syntactic change brought about by the study of low-frequency phenomena and of recessive changes, as well as on the exploration of changes conditioned by dialect contact, and textual traditions. I conclude with some remarks on the general typology of diffusion in syntactic change.
在21世纪之交，来自大型电子语料库的数据运用改变了对西班牙语历史句法的研究，激发了人们对长期演变以及相应历时曲线形态的兴趣。然而，关于扩散以及驱动和影响扩散的因素的总体思考仍然非常欠缺。在本文中，我思考了如此大量数据的可用性所带来的研究可能性，特别关注通过对低频现象和隐性变化的研究以及方言接触和文本传统所引发的变化的探索而带来的句法变化新知识。最后，我对句法变化中扩散的一般类型学作了一些评论。
