The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation
Previous evidence suggests clitics and determiners do not enter the same type of gender agreement relations in contact varieties of Spanish, despite proposals that treat clitics as determiners (big DP – Determiner Phrase – hypothesis) (Uriagereka 1995; Cecchetto 1999, 2000; Belletti 2005). We condu...
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| author | Liliana Sánchez José Camacho Elisabeth Mayer Carolina Rodríguez Alzza |
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Previous evidence suggests clitics and determiners do not enter the same type of gender agreement relations in contact varieties of Spanish, despite proposals that treat clitics as determiners (big DP – Determiner Phrase – hypothesis) (Uriagereka 1995; Cecchetto 1999, 2000; Belletti 2005). We conducted a study on gender agreement between clitics and their antecedents, and determiners and nouns among adult Shipibo-Spanish bilinguals to answer the following question: Do Shipibo- Spanish bilingual speakers have similar patterns of local vs. long-distance gender agreement? Our results show gender agreement between D and N obtains categorically, but gender agreement between the clitic and its antecedent is at chance-level. We propose an alternative analysis for our data that does not assume the big DP hypothesis.
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| spelling | doaj.art-bb184dfc012e420ea47d5922b89161792023-07-02T01:09:42ZcatUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaCatalan Journal of Linguistics1695-68852014-97192023-06-012210.5565/rev/catjl.357The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact SituationLiliana Sánchez0José Camacho1Elisabeth Mayer2Carolina Rodríguez Alzza3University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago Australian National University The University of Texas at Austin Previous evidence suggests clitics and determiners do not enter the same type of gender agreement relations in contact varieties of Spanish, despite proposals that treat clitics as determiners (big DP – Determiner Phrase – hypothesis) (Uriagereka 1995; Cecchetto 1999, 2000; Belletti 2005). We conducted a study on gender agreement between clitics and their antecedents, and determiners and nouns among adult Shipibo-Spanish bilinguals to answer the following question: Do Shipibo- Spanish bilingual speakers have similar patterns of local vs. long-distance gender agreement? Our results show gender agreement between D and N obtains categorically, but gender agreement between the clitic and its antecedent is at chance-level. We propose an alternative analysis for our data that does not assume the big DP hypothesis. https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/357big DP analysiscliticsdeterminer-noun agreementgenderlanguage contactShipibo |
| spellingShingle | Liliana Sánchez José Camacho Elisabeth Mayer Carolina Rodríguez Alzza The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation Catalan Journal of Linguistics big DP analysis clitics determiner-noun agreement gender language contact Shipibo |
| title | The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation |
| title_full | The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation |
| title_fullStr | The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation |
| title_full_unstemmed | The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation |
| title_short | The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation |
| title_sort | big dp hypothesis new evidence from gender agreement in a shipibo spanish language contact situation |
| topic | big DP analysis clitics determiner-noun agreement gender language contact Shipibo |
| url | https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/357 |
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