Quechua-Spanish object marking and information structure

What is it about?

In this paper we compare variability in object marking in terms of direct object clitic doubling of Quechua-dominant bilinguals and Lima Spanish monolinguals along a continuum of language contact situations.

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Why is it important?

The study is a first and novel comparison of language and dialect contact across urban and rural domains. This is important to identify effects of crosslinguistic influence and divergent linguistic input on variability in the morphological marking of clitics and clitic doubling structures. We report two significant findings: a) the emergence of monolingual and bilingual scalar clitic subsystems, and b) we link the the range of morphological variability to constraints of morphological availability in each respective typological space.