Él Code-Switches More Than tú y yo: New Data for the Subject Pronoun-Verb Switch Constraint

• Published in: Languages (Basel) Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 22
• Main Authors: Bellamy, Kate, Stadthagen-Gonzalez, Hans, Parafita Couto, M. Carmen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2022
• Subjects: Acceptability; Bilingualism; Code switching; Grammar; Grammaticality; judgement tasks; Language; Language typology; Morphology; Person; Pronouns; P’urhepecha-Spanish bilinguals; Receptive language; Spanish language; subject pronoun-verb switch; Verbs; Mexico

In early studies, code-switches between a subject pronoun and a finite verb were considered highly dispreferred or even impossible. However, naturalistic data from several language pairs has since highlighted that such switches are possible, although their grammaticality is constrained by the typolo...