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Emergence of a Bilingual Grammar: Word Order Differences in Monolingual Basque vs. Bilingual Basque-Spanish Predicative Constructions
List of Authors: Lantto Hanna
Publisher: BRILL
Publication year: 2021
Journal: Journal of Language Contact
Journal name in source: JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE CONTACT
Journal acronym: J LANG CONTACT
Volume number: 13
Issue number: 3
Start page: 636
End page: 662
Number of pages: 27
ISSN: 1877-4091
eISSN: 1955-2629
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-13030002
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/66941283
This article compares the monolingual Basque predicative constructions with bilingual Basque-Spanish predicative constructions. The speech data for the study were collected in the Greater Bilbao area of the Basque Country between 2005 and 2012. The results suggest that code-switching may trigger the convergence of predicative constructions and have a significant impact on the general word order patterns. The monolingual predicative constructions in the data mostly follow the canonical Basque sxv word order (similar to 81%), but the bilingual predicative constructions diverge from this word order in that the predicative element is located in a post-verbal position, as in Spanish (similar to 80%). The Spanish lexical elements seem to be strongly associated with the corresponding Spanish construction, the word order of which is then applied to otherwise Basque predicative constructions. I explain the predominance of the Spanish word order in the bilingual constructions by a combination of processing related factors and sociolinguistic factors.
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