A09
On the interplay between register and socio-geographic variation in Canarian Spanish

Project A09 centers on the crossroads between register and socio-geographic variation in Canarian Spanish for three morpho-syntactic phenomena. The linguistic reality of the Canary Islands is complex as they belong politically to Spain and are influenced by the Peninsular Spanish standard variety, while they share many linguistic features with Latin American Spanish. It is said that there is a diaglossic situation, characterized by a dialect-to-standard continuum where intermediate varieties exist between the local dialects and the national standard variety (Auer 2005, 2011), such as (at least) one regional standard. We aim to find evidence for this considering the interplay between register parameters (e.g., formality) and socio-geographic ones (e.g., education, age).