Interesting data

[Sanchez, Michael]

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Mike
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> From: 	Frances Karttunen[SMTP:karttu at nantucket.net]
> Sent: 	Sunday, November 21, 1999 12:28 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Interesting data
>
> Dear listeros,
>
> I was sent the following Nahuatl data from a very recent publication.  It
> seems that for the provider of these data, the fact that Nahuatl does not
> distinguish masculine and feminine third person singular subjects is a
> problem that has been solved by resort to Spanish el/ella.
>
> Has anyone else recorded data of this sort?  It's new ot me but plausible.
>
> Fran
>
>
>
> The reference is
> MacSwan, Jeff.  A minimalist approach to intrasentential code switchine.
> 1999.  NY:  Garland.  (this is a revision of his 1998 UCLA dissertation)
>
> Some acceptable examples with el and ella are:
>
> El kikoas tlakemetl
> 'He will buy clothes'
>
> Ella kikoas tlakemetl
> 'She will buy clothes'
>
> The comparable ungrammatical ones are:
>
> *Yo nikoas tlakemetl
> 'I will buy clothes'
>
> *Tu tikoas tlakemetl
> 'You will buy clothes'
>
> These are all on page 192 of his book.
>