Feature variability in the bilingual-monolingual continuum: clitics in bilingual Quechua-Spanish, bilingual Shipibo-Spanish and in monolingual Limeño Spanish contact varieties

• Published in: International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism Vol. 22; no. 7; pp. 883 - 896
• Main Authors: Mayer, Elisabeth, Sánchez, Liliana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 03.10.2019; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: American Indian Languages; Bilingualism; Clitics; Contrastive Linguistics; Dialect Studies; Dialects; feature reassembly; Foreign Countries; Form Classes (Languages); Ge Pano Carib languages; gender; Grammatical gender; Language contact; Language Variation; Language varieties; Linguistic Borrowing; Monolingualism; Morphemes; Native Language; Phonology; Pronunciation; Quechua; Quechua language; Scalarity (Semantics); Second Language Learning; Shipibo; Sociolinguistics; Spanish; Spanish language; South America; Peru
• ISSN: 1367-0050; 1747-7522
• DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2017.1322037

Direct object clitics in Latin American Spanish are subject to great variability in features across dialects. Variability also characterizes bilingual acquisition and especially clitic doubling structures in language contact contexts. We focus on the distribution of clitics and Differential Object Marking (DOM) in clitic doubling structures among Shipibo-Spanish bilinguals, Quechua-Spanish bilinguals, and monolingual speakers of Spanish in contact with Quechua. We analyze a continuum of clitic forms and DOM as complex cases of feature reassembly and functional convergence that results in new interface rules with scalar hierarchies.