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Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectivesEdited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 22] 2020
► pp. 215–234
Chapter 9The distribution and use of present and past progressive forms in
Spanish-English and Spanish-Brazilian Portuguese bilinguals
Julio César López Otero | Rutgers University
Alejandro Cuza | Purdue University
This study examines the distribution and use of
simple and progressive forms in two groups: English-speaking
heritage speakers of Spanish in the U.S. (n = 9)
and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking heritage speakers of Spanish in
Brazil (n = 15). We hypothesized that the groups
would show different crosslinguistic influence from their dominant
languages in their choice of verb forms. We collected semi-spontaneous
production data via oral narratives and analyzed group differences
in verb form, either simple or progressive, in activity and
accomplishment verbs (Vendler,
1967). The results show a main effect for group,
confirming that English-Spanish bilinguals favor progressive verb
forms in such contexts, while Brazilian Portuguese-Spanish
bilinguals opt for simple verb forms. We discuss our findings
following previous work by Jiang
(2000) and Putnam
& Sánchez (2013).
Keywords: heritage language, verb morphology, progressive verb form
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical background
- 2.1Tense and aspect
- 2.2Semantic constraints in the selection of the Spanish present tense
- 2.3Semantic constraints on the selection of the imperfect progressive in Spanish and BP
- 3.Previous acquisition research
- 3.1The Spanish present progressive
- 3.2The Spanish imperfect progressive
- 3.3Research question and hypothesis
- 4.The experiment
- 4.1Participants
- 4.2Methods and structures under analysis
- 5.Results
- 6.Discussion and conclusions
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Notes -
References
Published online: 14 February 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.22.09lop
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.22.09lop
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