Number agreement in Spanish spoken by Mapudungun-Spanish bilinguals. "Y despues ya cambio eso cuando aprendio a hablar wingka los mapuche"

Vinet, AO; Carrasco, RP; Sandoval, FH; Vergara, GS

Keywords: language contact, Number Agreement in American Spanish, Mapuzugun-Spanish Interaction, Code Copy

Abstract

This paper studies the number disagreement in the noun phrase and the sentence level in the Spanish spoken by bilingual Mapudungun-Spanish speakers using the framework of the theory of language contact. The frequency of number disagreement in the sentence and the nominal phrase is determined from the analysis of a corpus of three thousand sentences produced by bilingual speakers from the territories of Lonquimay, Tranantue and Maquehue (The Araucania Region, Chile). The study shows that although the phenomenon has certain regularity, it is not predominant in the corpus. We propose that number disagreement could be explained as a code-copying from Mapudungun to Spanish by the bilingual speakers. Although more studies are necessary to confirm this hypothesis.

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Título según WOS: Number agreement in Spanish spoken by Mapudungun-Spanish bilinguals. "Y despues ya cambio eso cuando aprendio a hablar wingka los mapuche"
Título de la Revista: CIRCULO DE LINGUISTICA APLICADA A LA COMUNICACION
Número: 78
Editorial: UNIV COMPLUTENSE MADRID, SERVICIO PUBLICACIONES
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Página de inicio: 211
Página final: 232
Idioma: Spanish
DOI:

10.5209/CLAC.64379

Notas: ISI