Emotion in language. Syntactic recycling or grammatical deviation?

SAAB, ANDRÉS

Workshop; IV Encontro de Gramática Gerativa; 2023

Universidade Federal de Bahia

I focus on the grammar of expressivity in Spanish, with particular emphasis in my own variety, Rioplatense Spanish. Essentially, I contend that expressivity in natural language is an epiphenomenon and, consequently, I make a first attempt to decompose the different factors that serve to the expressive function of language, i.e., generally speaking, the way in which different bits of grammar give us a flavor of the speaker and her relation to context.