Abstract
In this paper I provide a description of the reflexive syncretism found in some Spanish and Catalan neighbouring varieties. In these varieties, the 3rd person reflexive pronoun se can also appear with 1st person plural and 2nd person plural verbs. With dialectal data from the COSER, the ALPI and from works of other scholars I analyse the distribution of the syncretism in order to establish what person (the 1st plural or the 2nd plural) it affected first. I also analyse this syncretism in other Romance languages, in order to see if the person hierarchies previously proposed in the literature are confirmed by these varieties.
Highlights
In this paper I provide a description of the reflexive syncretism found in some Spanish and Catalan neighbouring varieties
At the very first interview I took part in, the speaker showed a regular use of the reflexive pronoun se in the 3rd person, and in the 1st and 2nd person plural
I will turn to describe the reflexive syncretism found in Peninsular Spanish and Valencian Catalan and try to see how it fits in the hierarchies and developments found in the Romance varieties reviewed
Summary
In September 2013, during the last large COSER interviews campaign, a team of 23 linguists did dialectology fieldwork in the Spanish provinces of Castelló, València, Alacant and Murcia. Look have.1PL thought.PTCP of marry.INF-3.REFL to you what him.DAT seems ‘“Look, we want to get married, what do you think?”’. “Ay, pues mira, a mí me parece, si vosotros se queréis, oh well look to me.OBL me.DAT seems if you.PL 3.REFL love.2PL ‘“Oh, well, I think, if you love each other,’. In this work I will present a first approach (the first one, to my knowledge) to this phenomenon, analysing both data from the COSER interviews and the ALPI.
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