Vuestra atención, por favor ‘your attention, please’: some remarks on the usage and history of plural vuestro/a in Cusco Spanish (Peru)
- This chapter documents and explains the use of the possessive form vuestro/a ‘your-PL’ in Cusco Spanish. This phenomenon, which has gone mostly unnoticed by scholars so far, is very unusual in American Spanish. We distinguish between a formulaic use (e.g. vuestra atención, por favor) and a highly productive strategic one, which highlights a contrastive relationship between the actions/ states of the plural addressee and those from the group in which the speaker positions himself. We then discuss three hypotheses on the origins of vuestro/a in Cusco Spanish related to colonial and early post-independence Spanish, examine the role of a notional transfer (Quechua → Spanish) and contextualize this development within the frame of Cusqueño society and its idiosyncratic mestizo identity.
| Author: | Philipp Dankel, Miguel Gutiérrez MatéORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1024225 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/102422 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-069026-2OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Address in Portuguese and Spanish: studies in diachrony and diachronic reconstruction |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Editor: | Martin Hummel, Célia dos Santos Lopes |
| Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2023/03/06 |
| First Page: | 317 |
| Last Page: | 360 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110701234-010 |
| Institutes: | Philologisch-Historische Fakultät |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Romanistik | |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Romanistik / Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft (Romanistik) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 46 Spanisch, Portugiesisch / 460 Spanisch, Portugiesisch |
| Licence (German): |  CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung |
