Del Cantábrico a Toledo: el "neutro de materia" hispánico en un contexto románico y tipológico

Abstract

This article reviews the grammatical patterns of agreements in the Iberian Peninsula from the data gathered for the Recorded Corpus of Rural Spanish, or COSER. As it is showed, agreements happen to exist not only in Asturias and Cantabria but in Castille, from Cantabrian to Toledo mountains. Nevertheless agreements are ruled by the same factors in the whole area. Hispanic mass agreements are compared and contrasted with data of neuter or mass agreements from other European languages or dialects (such as dialects from the center and south of Italy, Rhaeto-romance varieties, English dialects, Danish and Swedish) to conclude that all of them are constrained by one and the same universal hierarchy of semantic agreement. Following the pattern of this hierarchy, Hispanic agreements probably arose as an extension of the meaning and morphology of Romance neuter demonstrative pronouns.

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