C0 and Dutch-English code-switching
This paper aims to show that the mainstream Generative analysis for verb second (V2) languages – a functional head, C0, is responsible for V2 word order – does not hold up to scrutiny when confronted with bilingual data. Dutch-English code-switched data were used to investigate V2 word order in the...
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| description | This paper aims to show that the mainstream Generative analysis for verb second (V2) languages – a functional head, C0, is responsible for V2 word order – does not hold up to scrutiny when confronted with bilingual data. Dutch-English code-switched data were used to investigate V2 word order in the main clause – but also svo/sov word order in the subordinate clause, an issue that has relevance to the question at hand – using an acceptability judgment task to test how native bilinguals judge code-switched sentences in a verb second context and subordinate clauses. Novel results with regards to V2 word order are presented in combination with a corroboration of established patterns for subordinate clause word order. The results indicate that the language of the finite verb determines word order in both main and subordinate clauses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aae91accbef54cc69f8dccd42e606f1c2022-12-21T19:58:01ZengElsevierAmpersand2215-03902020-01-017100060C0 and Dutch-English code-switchingEmma Vanden Wyngaerd0Université libre de Bruxelles, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50/CP175, 1050 Brussels, BelgiumThis paper aims to show that the mainstream Generative analysis for verb second (V2) languages – a functional head, C0, is responsible for V2 word order – does not hold up to scrutiny when confronted with bilingual data. Dutch-English code-switched data were used to investigate V2 word order in the main clause – but also svo/sov word order in the subordinate clause, an issue that has relevance to the question at hand – using an acceptability judgment task to test how native bilinguals judge code-switched sentences in a verb second context and subordinate clauses. Novel results with regards to V2 word order are presented in combination with a corroboration of established patterns for subordinate clause word order. The results indicate that the language of the finite verb determines word order in both main and subordinate clauses.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039020300035Verb secondWord orderCode-switchingDutch-English |
| spellingShingle | Emma Vanden Wyngaerd C0 and Dutch-English code-switching Ampersand Verb second Word order Code-switching Dutch-English |
| title | C0 and Dutch-English code-switching |
| title_full | C0 and Dutch-English code-switching |
| title_fullStr | C0 and Dutch-English code-switching |
| title_full_unstemmed | C0 and Dutch-English code-switching |
| title_short | C0 and Dutch-English code-switching |
| title_sort | c0 and dutch english code switching |
| topic | Verb second Word order Code-switching Dutch-English |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039020300035 |
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