Estudio de las variables predictoras de la expresión del sujeto pronominal en el corpus PRESEEA. Málaga. Nivel de instrucción bajo

Abstract

The absence or presence of the subject personal pronoun is a linguistic phenomenon typical of pro-drop languages. This paper initiates a series of studies that try to find the linguistic and social determinants that affect the occurrence of this pronoun in the variety of Spanish spoken in Malaga (Spain). We show partial results concerning speakers with a low educational level obtained from the study of the first linguistic corpus of the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and American in Malaga (PRESEEA-Malaga) collected in the 1990s. For this purpose, we assume the methodology employed in other studies within the framework of the pan-Hispanic preseea project to compare the results obtained. We use the Coding Guide for the variable “expression of the pronominal subject” (Bentivoglio, Ortiz and Silva-Corvalán, 2011), although we have updated and adapted it. The exploratory analysis helps us to broadly compare the percentages of pronoun presence with previous studies carried out in different Spanish-speaking geographical areas. The correlation analysis allows us to observe which predictor variables favour its presence or omission and to assess whether there are similarities with the data from the corpora of Málaga (2015) and other cities such as Granada (2016), Seville (2019) and Valencia (2021), to finally establish a possible linguistic pattern.