Floating Agreement in American Spanish Leista Dialects

Mayer, Elisabeth

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Floating Agreement in American Spanish Leista Dialects

Date

2013

Authors

Mayer, Elisabeth

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

In this paper I link floating features in clitic clusters with two third-person participants to a split object marking system, indicative of a language change in progress. Both clitics are undergoing concurrent reanalysis processes affecting them differen