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- Title
Syntactic outcomes of socially (un)restricted bilingualism in Spain: Word order with unergative and unaccusative verbs across two generations of Basque speakers.
- Authors
Gondra, Ager
- Abstract
The present study uses the apparent-time construct to analyze cross-generational variability of word order in unergative and unaccusative constructions in Basque (e.g., negar ein 'to cry' and heldu 'to arrive', respectively). It considers the results of an acceptability judgment as well as elicitation tasks carried out among two generations of Basque native speakers (55–75 years old, and 35–45 years old). Unlike the younger participants, the older participants lack the syntactic focus strategy. It is proposed that this lack among the older participants was conditioned by the socially restricted bilingualism that they experienced during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939–1975), while the younger participants appeared to have acquired (i.e. recovered) the syntactic focus strategy because they experienced the legitimacy and vitality of Basque in public life and in formal education following the Normalization Law of 1982. Studies in Basque sociolinguistics have identified language changes through feature loss, dialectal leveling and contact-induced change, but no studies to date have identified the recovery of a previously lost syntactic structure.
- Subjects
SPAIN; WORD order (Grammar); BILINGUALISM; FRANCO, Francisco, 1892-1975; NATIVE language; LINGUISTIC change; VERBS; SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 3, p340
- ISSN
1879-9264
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/lab.21042.gon