Acknowledgements
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Abbreviations and other conventions
Chapter 1: Introduction
1 Introduction
Part A: Preliminaries
Chapter 2: Presentational haber pluralization
2 Presentational haber pluralization
2.1 Earlier studies in (perceptual) dialectology
2.2 Earlier studies in variationist sociolinguistics
2.3 Summary
Chapter 3: Cognitive Construction Grammar and language variation
3 Cognitive Construction Grammar and language variation
3.1 Cognitive Construction Grammar
3.2 Cognitive Construction Grammar and language variation
3.3 Summary
Chapter 4: Research questions and hypotheses
4 Research questions and hypotheses
4.1 Research questions
4.2 Hypotheses
4.3 Summary
Chapter 5: Methodology
5 Methodology
5.1 Judgment sample, selection criteria, and stratification variables
5.2 Fieldwork methods
5.3 Transcription, selection of cases, and envelope of variation
5.4 Statistical toolkit
5.5 Comparative sociolinguistics
5.6 Summary
Chapter 6: Semantic and syntactic properties of presentational haber
6 Semantic and syntactic properties of presentational haber
6.1 The meaning of the presentational haber constructions: POINTING-OUT
6.2 The nominal argument
6.3 The adverbial phrase
6.4 Implicit nominal arguments and adverbial phrases
6.5 Summary and box diagrams
Part B: Cognitive, social, and individual constraints on presentational haber pluralization
Chapter 7: Cognitive constraints on presentational haber pluralization
7 Cognitive constraints on presentational haber pluralization
7.1 Structure of the corpus and the regression models
7.2 Markedness of coding
7.3 Statistical preemption
7.4 Structural priming
7.5 Interaction between the linguistic predictors
7.6 Relative importance of the linguistic predictors
7.7 Summary
Chapter 8: Social constraints on presentational haber pluralization
8 Social constraints on presentational haber pluralization
8.1 Social constraints: Age, education, and gender
8.2 Linguistic predictors across social groups
8.3 Relative importance of the linguistic predictors across social groups
8.4 Summary
Chapter 9: Individual constraints on presentational haber pluralization
9 Individual constraints on presentational haber pluralization
9.1 Distribution across individuals
9.2 Random intercepts, slopes, and participant-specific regression coefficients
9.3 Linguistic predictors across individuals
9.4 The behavior of the Havana university graduates
9.5 Summary
Chapter 10: Cognitive, social, and individual constraints on presentational haber pluralization
10 Cognitive, social, and individual constraints on presentational haber pluralization
10.1 Cognitive constraints
10.2 Social constraints
10.3 Individual constraints
10.4 Conclusion
References
Index