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Data from L2 acquisition of European Portuguese
  • Aida Cardoso , Inês Duarte and Ana Lúcia Santos
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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018
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Abstract

Assuming the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (FRH) (Lardiere 2008, 2009), we argue that the acquisition of Exceptional Case Marking (ECM), Inflected Infinitive Structures (IIS) and Prepositional Infinitival Structures (PIC) by Spanish learners of European Portuguese (EP) presents different challenges. Two Acceptability Judgment Tasks show that identifying and reconfiguring the specific features associated with the PIC is a difficult task and that Spanish native speakers perform better in the case of ECM, whose properties can, for the most part, be transferred from the L1. However, the absence of an overt morphosyntactic counterpart for features related to Differential Object Marking (DOM) in EP represents a challenge. Finally, the results for the IIS present an interesting case study, since they force us to question the usual descriptions of the native grammar.

Abstract

Assuming the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (FRH) (Lardiere 2008, 2009), we argue that the acquisition of Exceptional Case Marking (ECM), Inflected Infinitive Structures (IIS) and Prepositional Infinitival Structures (PIC) by Spanish learners of European Portuguese (EP) presents different challenges. Two Acceptability Judgment Tasks show that identifying and reconfiguring the specific features associated with the PIC is a difficult task and that Spanish native speakers perform better in the case of ECM, whose properties can, for the most part, be transferred from the L1. However, the absence of an overt morphosyntactic counterpart for features related to Differential Object Marking (DOM) in EP represents a challenge. Finally, the results for the IIS present an interesting case study, since they force us to question the usual descriptions of the native grammar.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Processing clitic pronouns outside coargumenthood 11
  5. Chapter 2. Infinitival complement clauses 25
  6. Chapter 3. Focus fronting vs. wh -movement 49
  7. Chapter 4. The varieties of temporal anaphora and temporal coincidence 71
  8. Chapter 5. The structure and interpretation of ‘non-matching’ split interrogatives in Spanish 97
  9. Chapter 6. Differential object marking and scale reversals 117
  10. Chapter 7. Contact phenomena 131
  11. Chapter 8. - ŋ plurals in North Lombard varieties 151
  12. Chapter 9. Brazilian and European Portuguese and Holmberg’s 2005 typology of null subject languages 171
  13. Chapter 10. Aspect in the acquisition of the Spanish locative paradigm by Italian L2 learners 191
  14. Chapter 11. Catalan nativization patterns in the light of weighted scalar constraints 205
  15. Chapter 12. Temporal marking and (in)accessibility in Capeverdean 225
  16. Chapter 13. Very …. extracted 249
  17. Chapter 14. On adverbial perfect participial clauses in Portuguese varieties and British English 263
  18. Chapter 15. Craindre (“fear”) and expletive negation in diachrony 287
  19. Chapter 16. Fission in Romance demonstrative-reinforcer constructions 303
  20. Index 317
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.357.02car

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Processing clitic pronouns outside coargumenthood 11
  5. Chapter 2. Infinitival complement clauses 25
  6. Chapter 3. Focus fronting vs. wh -movement 49
  7. Chapter 4. The varieties of temporal anaphora and temporal coincidence 71
  8. Chapter 5. The structure and interpretation of ‘non-matching’ split interrogatives in Spanish 97
  9. Chapter 6. Differential object marking and scale reversals 117
  10. Chapter 7. Contact phenomena 131
  11. Chapter 8. - ŋ plurals in North Lombard varieties 151
  12. Chapter 9. Brazilian and European Portuguese and Holmberg’s 2005 typology of null subject languages 171
  13. Chapter 10. Aspect in the acquisition of the Spanish locative paradigm by Italian L2 learners 191
  14. Chapter 11. Catalan nativization patterns in the light of weighted scalar constraints 205
  15. Chapter 12. Temporal marking and (in)accessibility in Capeverdean 225
  16. Chapter 13. Very …. extracted 249
  17. Chapter 14. On adverbial perfect participial clauses in Portuguese varieties and British English 263
  18. Chapter 15. Craindre (“fear”) and expletive negation in diachrony 287
  19. Chapter 16. Fission in Romance demonstrative-reinforcer constructions 303
  20. Index 317
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