The Expression of Nominal Possession in the Spanish Spoken in the Colombian Eastern Plains

 

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Συγγραφείς: Bejarano Bejarano, Daniel Eduardo, Oviedo Yate, Brayan Stiven, Neme Florez, Erika Alejandra
Μορφή: artículo original
Κατάσταση:Versión publicada
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης:2026
Περιγραφή:This article examines the trends, distribution, and frequency of possessive adjectives (e.g., su casa), possessive periphrasis (e.g., la casa suya), and prepositional constructions introduced by de (e.g., la casa de él/ella) as variants for expressing nominal possession in the Spanish of the Colombian Orinoquía region (Casanare, Meta, and Vichada). Based on a corpus of field interviews, frequency maps were created to reveal both the existence of the variants and their usage distribution. The findings confirmed speakers' preference for adjectival forms, followed by periphrasis and prepositional forms, the latter being more frequent in second and third person contexts, particularly in third person as a strategy to disambiguate su or suyo. Statistical analyses demonstrated the influence of various sociolinguistic factors, such as gender, education, and place of upbringing, on the use of these variants. This pioneering study contributes to the understanding of Spanish morphosyntax in a little-explored geographical region, thereby broadening the perspective on linguistic varieties in Colombia.
Χώρα:Portal de Revistas UCR
Ίδρυμα:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Γλώσσα:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/4804
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rfilyling/article/view/4804
Λέξη-Κλειδί :Dialectology
Colombian Spanish
Spanish of the Orinoquía region
Spanish morphosyntax
nominal possessives
Dialectología
español de Colombia
español de la Orinoquía
morfosintaxis del español
posesivos nominales