The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation

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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Main Authors: Liliana Sánchez, José Camacho, Elisabeth Mayer, Carolina Rodríguez Alzza
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2023-06-01
Series:Catalan Journal of Linguistics
Subjects:
big DP analysis
clitics
determiner-noun agreement
gender
language contact
Shipibo
Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/357

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