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Clitic Doubling: The Case Of Nariño Andean Spanish, Jessica Paola Jurado Eraso
Clitic Doubling: The Case Of Nariño Andean Spanish, Jessica Paola Jurado Eraso
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This thesis examines the behavior of clitic doubling in Nariñense, a little-studied Andean Spanish variety spoken in the southwest of Colombia, and compares it to well-studied varieties such as standard Peninsular, Rioplatense, and other Andean Spanish varieties. Its aim is to present novel data about clitic doubling in order to shed more light into the extensive literature about this phenomenon in Spanish. Through spontaneous speech recordings obtained from thirty native speakers of Nariñense, 133 sentences involving clitic doubling were analyzed. Features such as agreement matching between the clitic and the doubled NP, use of the preposition a to introduce the …
Dp Internal Codeswitching By Spanish And English Bilinguals In The Us, Yurena Castaño-Nuñez
Dp Internal Codeswitching By Spanish And English Bilinguals In The Us, Yurena Castaño-Nuñez
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Codeswitching studies the boundaries that exist at all linguistic levels when a speaker switches between two or more languages in a single moment of speech.
(i) En el restaurante he pedido la big hamburguesa.
‘At the restaurant I have ordered the big hamburger.’
(ii) Juan conoce la highway para llegar a Washington D.C.
‘Juan knows the highway to get to Washington D.C.’
(iii) A Carmen no le gustan los pantalones cortos. A ella le gustan los long ones.
‘Carmen doesn’t like short pants. She likes the long ones.’
This thesis concentrates on the study of switches between adjectives and Noun …