Variation, evolution and the syntax of Afro-Bolivian Spanish gender agreement

Autor: Sandro Sessarego, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, Vol 2, Pp 63-86 (2010)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2184-5360
61695017
Popis: This paper combines sociolinguistic and formal syntactic approaches to characterize the constraints regulating gender agreement variation across the Determiner Phrase (DP) in Afro-Bolivian Spanish (ABS). Our results indicate a case of cross-generational change, consisting in the systematic replacement of stigmatized basilectal Afro-Bolivian features with more prestigious Bolivian Spanish ones. In light of recent minimalist models (Adger & Smith 2005; Adger 2006), the variability encountered in the corpus can be accounted for by reducing variation to the specification of uninterpretable features in a derivation.
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