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The locative paradigm in the L2 Spanish of Catalan native speakers

Abstract

This chapter explores the expression of locative and existential constructions in the Spanish of native speakers of Catalan (N = 20). Three (micro)parametric differences are investigated: the definiteness effect, the eventive effect, and the use of clitics. An oral production task (OPT) and an acceptability judgment task (AJT) were analyzed; a control group of native Spanish speakers was included (N = 20). Results of the OPT indicated underuse of estar, and an increase in clitics in the grammar of Catalan-Spanish bilinguals; the AJT showed that bilinguals accepted ungrammatical sentences with ser to locate in Spanish, and ungrammatical definite DPs with haber, displaying significant differences in their implicit grammars and a certain degree of functional convergence and language interference. Keywords: locatives; ser; estar; haber; Catalan; definiteness effect

Abstract

This chapter explores the expression of locative and existential constructions in the Spanish of native speakers of Catalan (N = 20). Three (micro)parametric differences are investigated: the definiteness effect, the eventive effect, and the use of clitics. An oral production task (OPT) and an acceptability judgment task (AJT) were analyzed; a control group of native Spanish speakers was included (N = 20). Results of the OPT indicated underuse of estar, and an increase in clitics in the grammar of Catalan-Spanish bilinguals; the AJT showed that bilinguals accepted ungrammatical sentences with ser to locate in Spanish, and ungrammatical definite DPs with haber, displaying significant differences in their implicit grammars and a certain degree of functional convergence and language interference. Keywords: locatives; ser; estar; haber; Catalan; definiteness effect

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Spanish as the L2 in a bilingual society
  5. Crosslinguistic influences in the mapping of functional features in Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism 21
  6. Verbal agreement in the L2 Spanish of speakers of Nahuatl 49
  7. Early coda production in bilingual Spanish and Basque 75
  8. The locative paradigm in the L2 Spanish of Catalan native speakers 105
  9. Spanish as an L2 in a non-bilingual society
  10. The acquisition of Spanish in a bilingual and a trilingual L1 setting 135
  11. Knowledge and Processing of Subject-related Discourse Properties in L2 Near-native Speakers of Spanish, L1 Farsi 169
  12. Subject pronouns in the L2 Spanish of Moroccan Arabic speakers 201
  13. The Construal of Goal-Oriented Motion Events by Swedish Speakers of L2 Spanish 233
  14. Spanish as an L2 in an instructional context
  15. Object Drop in L2 Spanish, (Complex) Feature Reassembly and L1 Pre-emption 257
  16. The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish by Turkish speakers 281
  17. Copula choice in adjectival contstructions in Dutch L1 Spanish L2 309
  18. Typological proximity in L2 acquisition 329
  19. Index 359
The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings
This chapter is in the book The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.3.05per

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Spanish as the L2 in a bilingual society
  5. Crosslinguistic influences in the mapping of functional features in Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism 21
  6. Verbal agreement in the L2 Spanish of speakers of Nahuatl 49
  7. Early coda production in bilingual Spanish and Basque 75
  8. The locative paradigm in the L2 Spanish of Catalan native speakers 105
  9. Spanish as an L2 in a non-bilingual society
  10. The acquisition of Spanish in a bilingual and a trilingual L1 setting 135
  11. Knowledge and Processing of Subject-related Discourse Properties in L2 Near-native Speakers of Spanish, L1 Farsi 169
  12. Subject pronouns in the L2 Spanish of Moroccan Arabic speakers 201
  13. The Construal of Goal-Oriented Motion Events by Swedish Speakers of L2 Spanish 233
  14. Spanish as an L2 in an instructional context
  15. Object Drop in L2 Spanish, (Complex) Feature Reassembly and L1 Pre-emption 257
  16. The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish by Turkish speakers 281
  17. Copula choice in adjectival contstructions in Dutch L1 Spanish L2 309
  18. Typological proximity in L2 acquisition 329
  19. Index 359
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