Variation of the second person singular of the simple past tense in twitter: hiciste vs. hicistes "you did"

• Autores: Antonio Ruiz Tinoco
• Localización: Dialectologia, ISSN-e 2013-2247, Nº. Extra 7, 2017, págs. 149-167
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this study, the ge ographical distribution of the -s added to the simple past tense of indicative in several high frequency verbs is analyzed, i.e. hicistes vs hiciste. For doing so, a geocorpus formed by geolocated tweets has been used. The data obtained suggest that the traditional explanation of addition by analogy with other verb tenses is still valid, especially in rural areas, although it is not the only factor. In urban areas of voseo, as is the case of the Río de la Plata variety, there is no great difference in the ratio of -s added with the surrounding rural areas, as had been considered in previous studies.