The ‘Big DP’ hypothesis: New evidence from gender agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish language contact situation

• Liliana Sánchez ^[1] ; José Camacho ^[1] ; Elisabeth Mayer ^[2] ; Carolina Rodriguez Alzza ^[3]
  1. [1] University of Illinois at Chicago

     University of Illinois at Chicago

     City of Chicago, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Australian National University

     Australian National University

     Australia

     
  3. [3] University of Texas at Austin

     University of Texas at Austin

     Estados Unidos

     

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• Localización: Catalan journal of linguistics, ISSN-e 2014-9719, ISSN 1695-6885, Vol. 22, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Language Contact in Theoretical Syntax), págs. 127-148
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.357
• Títulos paralelos:
  • La hipòtesi del SD gros: les dades de concordança de gènere en una situació de contacte de llengües shipibo-espanyol
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    Els treballs anteriors suggereixen que els clítics i els determinants no entren en el mateix tipus de relacions de concordança de gènere en varietats de contacte de l’espanyol, tot i les propostes que tracten els clítics com a determinants (hipòtesi del SD gros) (Uriagereka 1995; Cecchetto 1999, 2000; Belletti 2005). Hem realitzat un estudi sobre la concordança de gènere entre els clítics i els seus antecedents, i els determinants i els noms entre els bilingües adults shipibo-espanyol per respondre a la pregunta: Els parlants bilingües shipibo-espanyol tenen patrons similars de concordança de gènere local vs. concordança de gènere a llarga distància? Els nostres resultats mostren que la concordança de gènere entre D i N es fa categòricament, però la concordança de gènere entre el clític i el seu antecedents es producte de l’atzar. Proposem una anàlisi alternativa per a les nostres dades que no assumeixi la hipòtesi del SD gros.

  • English

    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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