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In:New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference
Edited by Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 71] 2026
► pp. 230–254

A study of code-switched compound verbs in Persian-Dutch bilinguals

 | Utrecht University
 | Utrecht University
 | Utrecht University
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Abstract
The present study investigates bilingual compound verbs (hereafter BCVs), verbs in which the components of a verbal compound come from the two languages of a bilingual speaker. We investigate to what extent grammatical category constrains the items occurring in the production of BCVs by Persian-Dutch bilinguals. Previous studies on BCVs reported that nominal constituents are often replaced by a verb from the other language, contrary to the grammatical category constraint (see Purmohammad, Vorwerg, & Abutaleb, 2022). Our study investigates whether these observations also apply to BCVs in Persian-Dutch bilinguals. Our results suggest that the grammatical category constraint is not violated, as subjects are sensitive to the nominal features of non-finite verbs, and that the grammatical category constraint should be refined rather than abandoned.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Persian compound verbs
  • 3.Bilingual code-switched compound verbs
  • 4.Lexical access in BCVs
  • 5.Dutch compound verbs and non-finite forms
  • 6.Experiment 1: BCVs in naturalistic data
    • 6.1Participants and method
    • 6.2Results
    • 6.3Discussion of Experiment 1
  • 7.Experiment 2: Picture-Word Interference paradigm
    • 7.1Participants
    • 7.2Materials and design
    • 7.3Procedure
    • 7.4Results
    • 7.5Discussion of Experiment 2
  • 9.General discussion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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