C0 and Dutch-English code-switching

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Emma Vanden Wyngaerd¹ 

[1] Université libre de Bruxelles, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50/CP175, 1050 Brussels, Belgium;

关键词: Verb second;    Word order;    Code-switching;    Dutch-English;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper aims to show that the mainstream Generative analysis for verb second (V2) languages – a functional head, C0, is responsible for V2 word order – does not hold up to scrutiny when confronted with bilingual data. Dutch-English code-switched data were used to investigate V2 word order in the main clause – but also svo/sov word order in the subordinate clause, an issue that has relevance to the question at hand – using an acceptability judgment task to test how native bilinguals judge code-switched sentences in a verb second context and subordinate clauses. Novel results with regards to V2 word order are presented in combination with a corroboration of established patterns for subordinate clause word order. The results indicate that the language of the finite verb determines word order in both main and subordinate clauses.

【 授权许可】

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