• In this article we study the Reportive Conditional (RC) in French (Kadhafi seraitRC malade ‘Gaddafi is reportedly sick’), Italian (Gheddafi sarebbeRC malato) and Spanish (Kadafi estaríaRC enfermo) from a comparative variational perspective, using both unidirectional translation corpora and comparable corpora. The RC seems to be semantically and syntactically fairly equivalent in these languages, whereas peninsular Spanish differs considerably from French, Italian and Latin American Spanish from a diaphasic point of view, which as a result gives rise to a diatopic variation in Spanish. The diaphasic properties of the RC in peninsular Spanish are partly determined by a depreciative, purist and sometimes deontological normative discourse. This purist discourse is sustained by supposed diachronic differences between Spanish and French. Clearly, diaphasic, diatopic and diachronic aspects of variation are interdependent in the case of the Spanish RC.

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HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

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Contrastive Linguistics

Linguistic Variation

Reportive Conditional

Peninsular Spanish

Latin American Spanish

Italian

French

linguistica contrastiva

variazione linguistica

condizionale epistemico di attribuzione

condizionale di dissociazione

spagnolo peninsulare

spagnolo latinoamericano

italiano

francese

linguistique contrastive

variation linguistique

conditionnel épistémique d'emprunt

conditionnel journalistique

espagnol péninsulaire

espagnol latino-américain

italien

français

lingüística contrastiva

variación lingüística

condicional epistémico de atribución

condicional de rumor

español peninsular

español latinoamericano

italiano

francés

Romanska språk

Romance Languages

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