On Convergence, Ongoing Language Change, and Crosslinguistic Influence in Direct Object Expression in Catalan–Spanish Bilingualism

On Convergence, Ongoing Language Change, and Crosslinguistic Influence in Direct Object Expression in Catalan–Spanish Bilingualism

The present study explores two morphological differences in direct object expression between Spanish and Catalan: Differential Object Marking (DOM), and the accusative clitics el /l/ vs. ho /u/. Both phenomena are regulated by semantic features, such as animacy and specificity/definiteness. The stud...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silvia Perpiñán
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-04-01
Series:Languages
Subjects:
accusative clitics
DOM
language convergence
Catalan
Spanish
definiteness
bilingualism
language change
crosslinguistic influence
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/3/2/14

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