Synchronic change in a multidialectal community: evidence from Spanish null and postverbal subjects
Synchronic change in a multidialectal community: evidence from Spanish null and postverbal subjects
Recent developments in linguistic theory have successfully reconciled diachronic syntactic change (Biberauer & Roberts, 2006; Breibarth, Lucas & Willis, 2008; Roberts, 2007) and intra-speaker variation (Adger & Smith, 2005, 2010; Henry, 1995; Barbiers, 2005) with Minimalist models of the language faculty. Cases of L1 attrition, however, whereby morphosyntactic properties in stable adult grammars undergo change, remain unaccounted for by Minimalist theory. Using evidence from the realisation of null and postverbal subjects in the grammar of two groups of native Spanish speakers in different bilingual settings, (Miami and the U.K.) we demonstrate that L1 attrition in language contact situations can similarly be accommodated within Minimalist theory, driven by changes to the lexical feature specifications of functional categories (Adger & Smith, 2010; Gallego, 2011; Holmberg, 2010).
Spanish, subjects, null subjects, attrition, variation and change, Cuban spanish, interface hypothesis
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
Dominguez, L.
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Hicks, G.
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Dominguez, L.
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Hicks, G.
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Dominguez, L. and Hicks, G.
(2016)
Synchronic change in a multidialectal community: evidence from Spanish null and postverbal subjects.
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Cuza, A., Czerwionka, L. and Olson, D.
(eds.)
Inquires in Hispanic Linguistics: from Theory to Empirical Evidence.
(Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 12)
Amsterdam, NL.
John Benjamins Publishing Company, .
(doi:10.1075/ihll.12.04dom).
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Recent developments in linguistic theory have successfully reconciled diachronic syntactic change (Biberauer & Roberts, 2006; Breibarth, Lucas & Willis, 2008; Roberts, 2007) and intra-speaker variation (Adger & Smith, 2005, 2010; Henry, 1995; Barbiers, 2005) with Minimalist models of the language faculty. Cases of L1 attrition, however, whereby morphosyntactic properties in stable adult grammars undergo change, remain unaccounted for by Minimalist theory. Using evidence from the realisation of null and postverbal subjects in the grammar of two groups of native Spanish speakers in different bilingual settings, (Miami and the U.K.) we demonstrate that L1 attrition in language contact situations can similarly be accommodated within Minimalist theory, driven by changes to the lexical feature specifications of functional categories (Adger & Smith, 2010; Gallego, 2011; Holmberg, 2010).
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Accepted/In Press date: 28 May 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 November 2016
Published date: 2016
Keywords:
Spanish, subjects, null subjects, attrition, variation and change, Cuban spanish, interface hypothesis
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/385196
ISSN: 2213-3887
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