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 thin k 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 explorato ry nature of the phenomenon under study, findings are not presented as conclusive, but rather
as a tentative explanation from the perspective of language contact.