Syntactic Phenomena in Peruvian Spanish

Abstract

This work analyzes the syntactic properties of three constructions in Peruvian Spanish: existential sentences, double possession, and doubled clitic climbing. It considers the interaction between feature bundling and the operation Agree, providing evidence in favor of a microparametric approach to language and dialectal variation. It explains the apparent agreement between the existential verb and its accusative object by postulating a T with a valued [person] feature and a Small v with only [number] but not [person], and also for the doubling of the possessor if Small n has a [genitive] feature transferred from the contact language, which incorporates into the D head, inflecting it as a possessive determiner. In addition, it accounts for the doubled clitic climbing constructions by claiming that the clitic in these cases has a referentiality feature, which gives it an affixal nature. Therefore it blocks the c-command relation with its lower copy, forcing it to be pronounced.

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