Affiliation:
1. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Abstract
Abstract
This study investigates the written production of direct object (DO) anaphora in L2 Spanish by adult English
native speakers. It focuses on the use of clitics and full DPs in topic continuity, where highly salient topics are typically
recovered by clitics in native Spanish. A combination of pragmatic factors in subject anaphora resolution (referential ambiguity
and distance) and morphosyntactic factors in the acquisition of clitics (gender and animacy) was analyzed in 5 subcorpora from the
CEDEL2 (Corpus Escrito del Español L2). Following Learner Corpus Research methodology, 773 anaphoric DOs and
their antecedents were tagged across 150 texts (from low-intermediate to upper-advanced proficiency). Results showed that as
learner proficiency increases, the predominant anaphoric strategy shifts from redundant DP overuse to felicitous
pronominalization. Clitic avoidance is the general strategy intimately related to clitics’ morphosyntactic deficits at advanced
levels, but also to pragmatic principles supporting the Pragmatic Principles Violation Hypothesis (Lozano, 2016).
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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