Syntactic outcomes of socially (un)restricted bilingualism in Spain

IF 1.8 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism Pub Date : 2022-10-31 DOI:10.1075/lab.21042.gon

Ager Gondra

{"title":"Syntactic outcomes of socially (un)restricted bilingualism in Spain","authors":"Ager Gondra","doi":"10.1075/lab.21042.gon","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\nThe 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.","PeriodicalId":48664,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.21042.gon","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

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.

查看原文本刊更多论文

西班牙社会（非）限制性双语的句法结果

本研究使用表观时间结构来分析巴斯克语中非及物结构和非及物结构（如negar ein“to cry”和heldu“to arrival”）中语序的跨代变异性。它考虑了两代巴斯克母语人士（55-75岁和35-45岁）的可接受性判断结果以及启发任务。与年轻的参与者不同，年长的参与者缺乏句法聚焦策略。有人提出，老年参与者的这种缺乏是由于他们在弗朗西斯科·佛朗哥独裁统治期间（1939–1975）所经历的社会限制的双语能力，而年轻的参与者似乎已经获得了（即恢复了）句法聚焦策略，因为他们在1982年《正常化法》之后的公共生活和正规教育中体验到了巴斯克语的合法性和活力。巴斯克社会语言学的研究已经通过特征缺失、方言均衡和接触引起的变化来确定语言变化，但迄今为止还没有研究确定先前丢失的句法结构的恢复。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

9.10%

发文量

期刊介绍： LAB provides an outlet for cutting-edge, contemporary studies on bilingualism. LAB assumes a broad definition of bilingualism, including: adult L2 acquisition, simultaneous child bilingualism, child L2 acquisition, adult heritage speaker competence, L1 attrition in L2/Ln environments, and adult L3/Ln acquisition. LAB solicits high quality articles of original research assuming any cognitive science approach to understanding the mental representation of bilingual language competence and performance, including cognitive linguistics, emergentism/connectionism, generative theories, psycholinguistic and processing accounts, and covering typical and atypical populations.