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Abstract

Abstract

This study addresses a gap in the extensive literature on Spanish indirect objects by offering a study of unmarked datives (i.e., you put an aluminum foil’; PRESEEA 2001). Analyzed are the linguistic constraints on the variable absence of dative marker ‘to’ in corpora of spoken Puerto Rican Spanish, in which the rate of marker absence is 33% ( = 380). Results of logistic regression analysis reveal that unmarked datives occurred with low frequency, non-prototypical dative verbs. Inanimate referents favored the absence of the dative marker, as did complex DPs, where the dative phrase and the clitic pronoun+verb are not adjacent. The findings are discussed from the twin perspectives of analogy as a mechanism of change and frequency effects: unmarked datives seem to most affect items at the margins of the dative category, in terms of both verbs and referents.

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