RT Book,_Section
T1 Restructuring and complexification of inflectional morphology under linguistic contact: the case of a Galician dialect
A1 Dubert García, Francisco
A1 Acuña Fariña, Juan Carlos
A2 Cuza, Alejandro
A2 Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro
K1 contacto lingüístico
K1 morfoloxía flexiva
K1 complexidade lingüística
K1 galego
K1 castelán
AB Galician has been in contact with Spanish since the very origins of both languages. Galician and Spanish are strongly structurally, genetically and typologically related. As the intensity of the contact has been growing and the number of bilingual speakers has been steadily increasing along the 20th century, more and more grammatical Spanish features entered into Galician. In this study, we analyse how the borrowing of Spanish morphological patterns that hypercharacterize the expression of various morphosyntactic features of some verbs causes a restructuring in the grammar of an urban variety of Galician mainly spoken bybilinguals. The incorporation of those Spanish borrowings also seems to provoke an increase in the complexity of the grammar of this Galician variety. We reflect on whether what seems to be a complexification from the point of view of an isolated grammar may be considered a simplification from the point of view of a bilingual mind/speaker.
PB De Gruyter Mouton
SN 978-1-5015-0998-8
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33662
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33662
LA eng
NO Acuña-Fariña, Juan Carlos; Dubert García, Francisco (2018): “Restructuring and complexification of inflectional morphology under linguistic contact: the case of a Galician dialect”, en Alejandro Cuza & Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes (eds.), Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula. Berlín: De Gruyter Mouton, 187-213.
NO GRC2015/006 ED431C_2017/34
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026