Contribution to the history of "voseo". The High Peruvian paradigm at the beginning of the XIX century

Abstract

Despite being one of the most analysed subjects in American Spanish, the diachronic development of "voseo" is mostly unknown with the exception of Buenos Aires studied in many articles by Fontanella de Weinberg.

In this paper, distribution and usage of "tuteo" and "voseo" in the first years of 19^th. century Bolivian Spanish is analysed, in order to establish the paradigm used in the region during this period and also compare the results with those described for different areas, like Salta, Tucumán or Buenos Aires.