Multilingualism effects in an elicitation study on Differential Object Marking in Cusco (Peru) and Misiones (Argentina)
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Albert Wall [1] ; Philipp Obrist [2]
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[1] University of Vienna
University of Vienna
Innere Stadt, Austria
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[2] University of Zurich
University of Zurich
Zürich, Suiza
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- Localización: Differential Object Marking in Romance: the third wave / coord. por Johannes Kabatek, Philipp Obrist, Albert Wall, 2021, ISBN 978-3-11-064656-6, págs. 139-172
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Although Differential Object Marking in Spanish (a-marking of direct objects) has been extensively studied from different perspectives and with different methods, its status and functioning in multilingual and language contact settings has thus far received little attention. This paper presents and compares data from monolingual and bilingual speakers of Spanish from two regions in Latin America, namely Argentina/The River Plate and Peru. An experimental elicitation study reveals that there are considerable differences in the DOM systems of Spanish monolinguals vs. bilinguals and between the bilingual groups, with the latter showing more individual variability and lower rates of a-marking in general. Our findings also suggest that within monolingual groups, the variation of a-marking is strongest for semantics-driven factors rather than syntax-driven ones. From a methodological perspective, we introduce an effective tool for collecting oral production data for a wide range of different DOM-sensitive syntactic configurations.
