Abstract
The present investigation studies “clean” topic-continuity and topic-shift in a corpus of oral narratives produced by Dutch-speaking learners of Spanish as a foreign language. It thereby investigates to what extent the learners use the null pronoun, the explicit personal pronoun and the proper name in order to mark both topic-continuity and topic-shift, considering the different referential options in Dutch and Spanish, respectively non-pro-drop and pro-drop languages. Embedded in the cognitive linguistics tradition, the study is primarily based upon the Accessibility Theory (Ariel 1990) and the accessibility scales created by Ariel and Figueras (2002). The corpus data were annotated in Excel and in the UAM CorpusTool.
Highlights
The present investigation studies clean topic-continuity and topic-shift in a corpus of oral narratives produced by Dutch-speaking learners of Spanish as a foreign language
No obstante, que en el presente estudio, también tenemos en cuenta el nombre propio como expresión referencial que puede utilizarse en casos de mantenimiento y cambio de tópico
The L2 Acquisition of Null and Overt Spanish Subject Pronouns: A pragmatic approach
Summary
En el presente estudio se pretende investigar las nociones de ‘mantenimiento de tópico1’ (topic-continuity) y ‘cambio de tópico’ (topic-shift) en un corpus de narraciones orales producidas por aprendices neerlandófonos del español como lengua extranjera. La investigación se inscribe en una línea de estudios cognitivos, ya que la Teoría de la Accesibilidad de Ariel (1990) es la premisa principal del estudio. Se presentarán las ideas principales de esta teoría, además de profundizar en las diferencias entre el sistema referencial del neerlandés y del español. Se discutirán el corpus, que fue compilado en la Vrije. Finalmente, proporcionaremos los primeros resultados con respecto al mantenimiento y cambio de tópico en nuestro corpus de aprendices del español como lengua extranjera
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