On the Nature of Cross-Linguistic Transfer: A Case Study of Andean Spanish

Autor/in	Muntendam, Antje G.
Titel	On the Nature of Cross-Linguistic Transfer: A Case Study of Andean Spanish
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16 (2013) 1, S.111-131 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S1366728912000247
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); American Indian Languages; Linguistic Borrowing; Transfer of Training; Word Order; Foreign Countries; Spanish; American Indians; Syntax; Language Research; Case Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Lehnwort; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Wortfolge; Ausland; Spanisch; American Indian; Indianer; Sprachforschung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	This paper presents the results of a study on cross-linguistic transfer in Andean Spanish word order. In Andean Spanish the object appears in preverbal position more frequently than in non-Andean Spanish, which has been attributed to an influence from Quechua (a Subject-Object-Verb language). The high frequency of preverbal objects could be explained by focus fronting. The main syntactic properties of focus fronting in Spanish are weak crossover and long distance movement. Two elicitation studies designed to test for these properties in non-Andean Spanish, Andean Spanish and Quechua show no evidence of syntactic transfer from Quechua into Andean Spanish. Rather, the analysis of naturalistic data and an elicitation study on question-answer pairs show that there is pragmatic transfer from Quechua into Andean Spanish. The study has implications for theories of syntax and language contact, and especially for the debate on the nature of cross-linguistic transfer. (As Provided).
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