Evidências para aquisição do efeito V2 no espanhol medieval

Abstract

The V-2 effect – the movement of the inflected verb to the second position in the clause – appears through a movement of the verb from T° to C° and a displacement of the XP to a [spec, CP] position. Authors such as Pinto (2011), Fontana (1993; 1997), Fernández Ordóñez (2009), Rodríguez Molina (2010), Adams (1987), Antonelli (2011) and many others argue that Romance languages from the Medieval epoch were V2-languages, while some others authors denies this hypothesis. Assuming that the medieval Romance languages, essentially including Spanish, were [+V2] languages, this dissertation seeks to analyze and discuss hypothesis about the acquisition of this phenomenon in medieval Spanish. To achieve this objective, we will analyze a sample included in the database of Pinto (2011), in order to gather evidence for the acquisition of an I-language [+V2] in medieval Spanish taking in consideration hypotheses about the internal and/or external factors that could have motivated the acquisition, as well as considering the linguistic contacts between the barbarian and Latinized peoples in the history of Spanish. We aim to answer the following questions: (i) what configures the acquisition of a grammar [+V2] in medieval Spanish? (ii) what would trigger a child to acquire this grammar?