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In:Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 13] 2017
► pp. 261–282

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Chapter 11
Obliteration after Vocabulary Insertion

 | University of Illinois at Chicago
 | University of Illinois at Chicago
Published online: 31 May 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.13.11ver
Abstract
Seminal work in Distributed Morphology has posited an operation type called Obliteration (Arregi & Nevins, 2006), which deletes a terminal node from a structure. Obliteration is assumed to take place before Vocabulary Insertion (VI). Based on bilinguals’ acceptability judgments of negative sentences in Basque-Spanish code-switching, we argue that Obliteration can apply to a vocabulary item that has already undergone VI.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Theoretical framework and empirical questions
    • 2.1Syntactic assumptions
    • 2.2Distributed Morphology
    • 2.3Impoverishment and Obliteration
    • 2.4Negation in Basque and Spanish
    • 2.5A Minimalist and DM model of a bilingual I-language
    • 2.6Predictions
  • 3.Methods
    • 3.1Participants
    • 3.2Stimuli
    • 3.3Procedure
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Results for monolingual structures
    • 4.2Results for code-switching structures
  • 5.Proposal and analysis
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations used in glosses
  • References
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