Null objects in the spontaneous speech of monolingual and bilingual speakers of European Portuguese
| Autor: | Pilar Barbosa, Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidade do Minho |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language History Referentiality hierarchy Null (mathematics) Null objects 06 humanities and the arts Línguas e Literaturas [Humanidades] Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics German Bilingual speakers’ competence European Portuguese Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas 0602 languages and literature language 10. No inequality Spontaneous speech |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 1613-4079 0921-4771 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/probus-2017-0004 |
| Popis: | This paper investigates object omissions in the spontaneous production of European Portuguese by second generation Portuguese-German bilingual speakers and compares them to first generation migrants, and two age-matched groups of monolingual speakers. The results show that bilingual speakers as well as the younger generation of monolinguals show a higher number of null objects in their speech than the two older generations. This may reflect an inter-generational development that favours null objects, which is independent of language contact. The analysis of the syntactic and semantic conditions determining the occurrence of null objects in the speech of the different groups reveals that the semantic properties of the null objects realized by the bilinguals, particularly the higher rates of animate and nonpropositional null objects, show that they extend the semantic-pragmatic conditions of null object realization along the referentiality hierarchy proposed by Cyrino, Duarte and Kato (2000). The bilingual speakers may reflect a language-internal pathway that appears to resemble a diachronic change observed in BP. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
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