Converging and diverging grammars
- Landa Arevalillo, María Alazne
- Franco Elorza, Jon
ISSN: 0582-6152
Año de publicación: 1999
Volumen: 33
Número: 2
Páginas: 569-582
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International journal of basque linguistics and philology
Resumen
This paper reports on a cross-generational study of the evolution of Basque Spanish as regards lexical subjects in infinitival constructions, preverbal double negatives, nominal disagreement, clitic doubling, word order, and null objects. We show that some of these features have disappeared over a generation of speakers whereas others are still present in younger generations, and we explain this situation in terms of our finding that a syntactic phenomenon does not survive in isolation but its future is linked to that of a cluster of syntactic properties.