Aditz-finitotasuna haur elebidunen euskaran eta gaztelanian

EZEIZABARRENA, María José

Publication year:

2000

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-966-5

ISSN:

1137-4446

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Summary

This paper deals with the acquisition of verb morphology by bilingual children acquiring Basque and Spanish simultaneously, in order to further the discussion about the fusion or separation of languages. Despite the different organisation of person markers, the acquisition of Basque and Spanish verb-morphology takes place following a very similar sequence: subject-agreement markers on the verb appear earlier than object markers. Moreover, these acquisitional steps are chronologically parallel in the two languages. However, the distribution of infinitive verb forms in main sentences appear to be quite different in both languages: they are more frequent and appear in a larger variety of context in Basque.