Resumen de Contrasting the Usage-Based and Formalist Approaches
Joseph Clancy Clements, Jordan M. Garrett
This chapter, first, provides an overview of the general usage-based and formalist approaches and follows it up with a description of how each approach handles the well-known phenomenon of Spanish subject personal pronoun expression. The usage-based model subsumes a wide range of approaches. It considers structure to be linked to cognition (e.g., language processing), language typology, functional considerations, and language use. Language variation is found at all levels of grammar and in the speech of all speakers. It was first systematically studied in sociolinguistics. Most, if not all, spoken languages make use of pronouns to refer to entities present in or already introduced into a discourse situation or conversational exchange. A usage-based study of Spanish subject personal pronoun expression could be framed in various ways.
