Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism

Interference and convergence in functional categories

Liliana Sanchez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

189 Seiten

2003
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
9789027252944 (ISBN)

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This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to language change in a language contact situation, and links convergence, a common set of feature values for the same functional category in both languages to the activation of features related to the informational structure of the sentence. These mechanisms are illustrated in detail by the presence of overt determiners, canonical SVO word order and the absence of accusative marking in bilingual Quechua and by neutralization of case and gender distinctions in direct object pronouns as well as in the emergence of null pronouns with definite antecedents in bilingual Spanish.

1. Acknowledgements; 2. 1. The acquisition of functional categories in bilinguals; 3. 2. The direct object system of Quechua and Spanish; 4. 3. Bilinguals in a language contact situation; 5. 4. A turtle is looking at a toad: Functional interference and convergence in bilingual Quechua; 6. 5. The frog is looking at Phi-features: Functional convergence in bilingual Spanish; 7. 6. Conclusions; 8. Appendix; 9. Bibliography; 10. Index

Reihe/Serie	Language Acquisition and Language Disorders ; 35
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 245 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9789027252944 / 9789027252944
Zustand	Neuware