Aqueix Caught in the Middle. A Demonstrative Choice Task Study of Catalan Demonstratives

Author:

Todisco Emanuela1ORCID,Rocca Roberta2,Wallentin Mikkel3

Affiliation:

1. Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Filologia Espanyola, Moderna i Clàssica , Carretera de Valldemossa km 7.5 , Palma de Mallorca , Baleares , 07122 , Spain

2. School of Culture and Society - Interacting Minds Centre , Aarhus Universitet , Nordre Ringgade 1, 8000 Aarhus C , Midtjylland , Denmark

3. Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics , Aarhus Universitet , Nordre Ringgade 1, 8000 Aarhus C , Midtjylland , Denmark

Abstract

Abstract Recent studies using the Demonstrative Choice Task (DCT), where participants pair words with a demonstrative with no additional context, have shown that this choice is influenced by word semantics. Here, we applied the DCT to Catalan. We aimed at replicating previous findings and assessing how semantic factors play out in Catalan. We focused specifically on the second term aqueix (that), currently falling out of use. We hypothesized that its residual use would be influenced by the semantic factor valence, due to a hypothesized derogatory meaning. We also explored whether its use differed across varieties (Central Catalan versus Balearic Catalan). Our results replicate previous findings from English and Spanish on the role of manipulability, valence and psychological proximity to the self in preferences for proximal versus distal forms, reinforcing the hypotheses that these factors underlie demonstrative choices in the DCT, cross-linguistically. The use of aqueix was overall infrequent, highlighting the ongoing reduction of Catalan demonstratives from a three- to a two-term system. No significant association between valence and aqueix was found, but a small unpredicted effect for taste/smel l indicated an increased use of aqueix. Frequency in the use of aqueix, but not semantic factors driving its use, differed across peninsular and insular speakers.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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