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In:Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution
Edited by Stephen Fafulas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 23] 2020
► pp. 127–154

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Chapter 6
Clitics and argument marking in Shipibo-Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual speech

 | University of Illinois at Chicago
 | The Australian National University
Published online: 15 July 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.23.06san
Abstract
Direct object clitics in Spanish are morphological markers at the interface of syntax and phonology, morphology, semantics and information structure. We explore variability in direct object clitic doubling and argument marking in bilingual speakers of Shipibo-Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish (Mayer & Sánchez, in press). We focus on the production of the dative versus the accusative forms of the clitic and on the expression of Differential Object Marking (DOM) (Aissen, 2003; Bossong, 1985, 1991; Dalrymple & Nikolaeva, 2011), in particular, on the extension of DOM to definite inanimate DPs and the lack of DOM with animate direct objects required in other varieties of Spanish. We analyze this variability as the coexistence of two different argument-marking systems in these contact varieties of Amazonian Spanish.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Argument marking in Spanish, Shipibo and Ashéninka
    • 2.1Spanish case and object agreement system
    • 2.2Shipibo case and agreement system
    • 2.3Ashéninka-Perené argument marking
  • 3.Methodology
    • 3.1Shipibo Spanish bilingual data
    • 3.2Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual data
  • 4.Data sets and results
    • 4.1Shipibo Spanish
    • 4.2Ashéninka-Perené Spanish
  • 5.Discussion of comparative results
  • 6.Proposal
    • 6.1Ergativity in Shipibo and its consequences for Shipibo Spanish
    • 6.2Mixed properties and their effect on Ashéninka-Perené bilingual Spanish
  • 7.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
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