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DESCRIPTION:As part of my practical semester I was able to conduct online
  fieldwork. I worked together with speakers of the indigenous language o
 f the Mariana Islands called Chamorro (alternative spelling: CHamoru). D
 ue to the colonization of the Spanish Empire starting from the 16th cent
 ury until the end of the 19th century it was heavily influenced by Spani
 sh and adopted a lot of Hispanisms. One of the borrowed words\, and the 
 focus of this project\, is the article un. It integrated itself into the
  system of determiners that previously consisted of the common article i
  and the zero article. This integration interferes with the definiteness
  based split-ergative system. un is used to introduce new discourse part
 icipants which are high in topicality and are specific-referential. They
  are known to the speaker but not to the listener. When an object is hig
 h in topicality and definiteness an ergative-absolutive pattern is very 
 likely to be used. As topicality and definiteness is a continuum\, un is
  being used for a more distinct measurement. Before the Spanish influenc
 e\, the common article i was used instead of the borrowed un. My goal fo
 r the fieldwork was to find out when exactly the un article is being use
 d and how far the integration into the system of determiners has progres
 sed. I created an online questionnaire with different Chamorro sentences
  for the participants to fill out. At first I presented them with multip
 le versions of the same sentences which only differed in the topicality 
 and definiteness of the object and asked about their grammaticality. Aft
 erwards I presented them with sentences with un from the Chamorro corpus
  in which I replaced the un with either the common article i or the zero
  article and asked about their grammaticality again. 
URL:stuts74/events/1077.html
SUMMARY:Chamorro fieldwork (online): The borrowed article un 
ORGANIZER:stuts74
LOCATION:stuts74 - NIG Raum 1
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