Quizá(s) and tal vez in Some Spanish and Latin American Authors

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https://doi.org/10.20420/PhilCan.2015.0036

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quizá(s), tal vez, idiolectal variation, narrative, Spanish, stylometry

Abstract

In this paper I intend to analyze the rate of occurrence of two adverbials of possibility, quizá(s) and tal vez, in prose narratives by eight Spanish and Latin American novelists. The main goal is to check, through a thorough statistical scrutiny, whether these adverbs are author-related or not. The data, a total of 3,476 instances to be sampled, are drawn from an overall corpus of 32 novels published between 2001 and 2014. The results yielded by such analysis not only show that the presence of these adverbs is somewhat determined by the author but also that the variables are interrelated across different contexts. Thus, what the ensuing lines come to prove is that the use of such adverbs of possibility is a marker of the writer’s idiosyncratic style.

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Author Biography

Magnolia Troya Déniz, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Magnolia Troya Déniz has a PhD in Hispanic Philology and works as Associate Professor at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In her doctoral thesis she studied the use of infinitive verb periphrasis in the cult norm of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She has also investigated other topics, such as the variation of ir a + infinitive and of the future in -ré, the use of deber (de) + infinitive and the position of the atonic pronouns in combination with verbal periphrases in the Pan-Hispanic cultured norm. She has also carried out studies of acoustic phonetics on vowelism in the cultured norm of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

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2015-11-21

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Troya Déniz, M. (2015). Quizá(s) and tal vez in Some Spanish and Latin American Authors. Philologica Canariensia, 21, 109–132. https://doi.org/10.20420/PhilCan.2015.0036

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