Extraordinary Insertion of Direct Object Clitic lo in Spanish Spoken by Costa Rican Guaymies: Preliminary Remarks

Abstract

The objective of this article is to explain the extraordinary insertion of clitics of the type 'I will think about it', as a possible structural result of the influence of the Guaymí language originating in this ethnic group. To this purpose, oral material from eighteen bilingual speakers of Guaymí and Spanish was collected and transcribed. Due to the exploratory nature of the phenomenon under study, findings are not presented as conclusive, but rather as a tentative explanation from the perspective of language contact.