The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation
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چکیده
Previous evidence suggests clitics and determiners do not enter the same type of gender agreement relations in contact varieties Spanish, despite proposals that treat as (big DP – Determiner Phrase hypothesis) (Uriagereka 1995; Cecchetto 1999, 2000; Belletti 2005). We conducted a study on between their antecedents, nouns among adult Shipibo-Spanish bilinguals to answer following question: Do Shipibo- Spanish bilingual speakers have similar patterns local vs. long-distance agreement? Our results show D N obtains categorically, but clitic its antecedent is at chance-level. propose an alternative analysis for our data does assume big hypothesis.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Catalan journal of linguistics
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2014-9719', '1695-6885']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.357