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LINGUIST List 17.2634

Sat Sep 16 2006

Diss: Historical Ling/Socioling: Sweeney: 'El Voseo en Chile: Facto...'

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        1.    Patricia Sweeney, El Voseo en Chile: Factores historico-morfologicos que explican su aparicion y mantenimiento
Message 1: El Voseo en Chile: Factores historico-morfologicos que explican su aparicion y mantenimiento
Date: 15-Sep-2006
From: Patricia Sweeney <pw20052msn.com>
Subject: El Voseo en Chile: Factores historico-morfologicos que explican su aparicion y mantenimiento


Institution: Albany State University
Program: Spanish
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2005

Author: Patricia C Sweeney

Dissertation Title: El Voseo en Chile: Factores historico-morfologicos que explican su aparicion y mantenimiento

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                            Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Dissertation Director:
Luis Paris
Denise Smith
Maurice Westmoreland

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation titled 'El Voseo en Chile: Factores
historico-morfologicos que explican su aparicion y mantenimiento' focuses
on the appearance of the 'voseo' in Chile from the arrival of the Spanish
colonizers up to its present use. For this purpose one will study the
historical and morphological aspects that influenced the population of the
Chilean territory.

The 'voseo' is the uses of 'vos' instead of 'tu' as second person singular
with its verbal form: monophthongized and diphthongized.

In this paper one discusses that the Chilean 'voseo' was brought by
Spaniards from the North and Center of Spain (castellanos, los viejos, los
nuevos, vascos, navarros y gallegos among others) with the same forms of
adress used in that country in the first centuries (XIII- XIV); this had a
prestigious and respectful connotation among Spanish aristocracy, and other
high classes.

During the colonial centuries (XVI, XVII, and XVIII) the Chilean 'voseo'
had two main stages of use. The first stage where its use had a prestigious
social status mainly the use of 'pronominal vos', and the 'vos verbal'
diphthongized characteristic of the Spanish courtesan society; and these
Spaniards were from the North and Center of Spain. This population was
mainly formed by 'hidalgos' or low Spanish aristocracy, and a second stage
after the arrival of Andres Bello (Venezuelan humanist who was a
nationalized Chilean) where the use of the 'voseo' was considered 'vulgar'
and it was wrong to use 'vos' instead of 'tu' as second person singular.

Through these stages pages one has demonstrated that the present use of
'voseo' in Chile has survived mainly the 'courtesan voseo', and the 'voseo
verbal dipthongized: (e.g. sois, estais) among the low Chilean class, as
well as the 'voseo culto' (the verbal voseo dipthongized and the use of the
pronoun 'tu' for example: tu sois loco), among the university students of
Chile. However the 'pronominal vos' continues with a negative connotation
among educated Chilean.


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