Chapter 6
Me gohtaba ehta linguaji barranquenha
Variable object clitics in Barranquenho
The villa of Barrancos, Portugal, has a
multilingual population that in addition to European Portuguese and
Spanish also speaks an autochthonous contact variety, Barranquenho.
Previous research on several phonological and morphosyntactic
properties suggest Barranquenho is a mixed language albeit not a
prototypical one. The current study analyzes 895 tokens of object
clitics taken from a corpus of 20 native-speaker interviews and
examines their placement, morphology and distribution in specific
constructions. Results suggest that Barranquenho speakers possess a
mixed clitic system containing both Spanish and Portuguese-like
properties. The data also suggest a more Spanish-like placement
pattern; one that is sensitive to finiteness rather than the
presence/absence of various operators or morphophonological (PF)
restrictions when interpreted in light of current approaches to the
syntax of clitics. Moreover, this study has implications for
existing typological models of contact varieties and point to future
research regarding the application of syntactic models to these
approaches.
Article outline
- Dedication
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Introduction to Barranquenho
- 2.1Barranquenho as a mixed language
- 2.2The evolutionary model of language change
- 3.POCs in Spanish, European Portuguese and Barranquenho
- 4.Research questions and hypotheses
- 5.Method
- 5.1Analysis
- 5.2Exclusions
- 6.Results and discussion
- 7.General discussion
- 8.Limitations and future research
- 9.Conclusions
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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References
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