Quechua-Spanish bilingualism : interference and convergence in functional categories / Liliana Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez, Liliana.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 35.

Language acquisition & language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism in children--Peru.

Bilingualism in children.

Languages in contact--Peru.

Languages in contact.

Quechua language--Grammar, Comparative--Spanish.

Quechua language.

Spanish language--Grammar, Comparative--Quechua.

Spanish language.

Interference (Linguistics).

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins Pub., 2003.

Summary:

This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to language change in a language contact situation, and links convergence, a common set of feature values for the same functional category in both languages to the activation of features related to the informational structure of the sentence. These mechanisms are illustrated in detail by the presence of overt determiners, canonical SVO word order and the absence of accusative marking in bilingual Quechua and by neutralization of case and gender distinctions in direct object pronouns as well as in the emergence of null pronouns with definite antecedents in bilingual Spanish.

Contents:

Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

1 The acquisition of functional categories in bilinguals

2 The direct object system of Quechua and Spanish

3 Bilinguals in a language contact situation

4 A turtle is looking at a toad

5 The frog is looking at Phi-features

6 Conclusions

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

The series LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612160752

9781282160750

1282160753

9789027295965

9027295964

OCLC:

55664407