This investigation analyzes the plan for reincorporation of the former combatants of FARC as a result of the 2016 Peace Agreement. By analyzing the past efforts of reintegration in Colombia, for...Show moreThis investigation analyzes the plan for reincorporation of the former combatants of FARC as a result of the 2016 Peace Agreement. By analyzing the past efforts of reintegration in Colombia, for example, by the Colombian Agency for Reintegration (Agencia Colombiana para la Reintegración, ACR, now ARN), and their successes and failures, a reflection can be made for the current plan for reintegration. With this analysis an effort will be made to improve the process of reintegration in Colombia and take possible risks into account.The three main themes throughout the thesis are reincorporation policies related to gender topics, individual versus collective reintegration, and the politicization of former combatant groups.Show less
This thesis investigates mixed nominal constructions, both complex (with an adjective) and simplex. Such constructions create potential conflict sites in Spanish-English code-switching. Spanish and...Show moreThis thesis investigates mixed nominal constructions, both complex (with an adjective) and simplex. Such constructions create potential conflict sites in Spanish-English code-switching. Spanish and English differ for (1) adjective-noun order: Spanish typically has post-nominal adjectives, whereas English has pre-nominal adjectives, and (2) grammatical gender: Spanish has a binary gender system, while English does not. A multi-task method was conducted in the Spanish-English bilingual community in Puerto Rico. The tasks comprised of an elicitation task (cf. director-matcher task, Gullberg, Indefrey, and Muysken 2008) and an auditory grammaticality judgment task. The predictions from the Matrix Language Framework (MLF, Myers-Scotton 2002) and a minimalist analysis from Cantone and MacSwan (2009) are tested against the collected data. The results from both tasks tend to indicate that the Matrix Language approach provides better predictions than the minimalist approach in every respect except for adjective-noun order constructions in the judgment task. This slight preference, however, is not significant. Toy task results for gender assignment in Spanish determiners indicate that there is a preference for the assignment of default gender, i.e. masculine in Spanish, rather than gender that is analogue to the translation equivalent of the noun. This preference is confirmed by judgment task results that include simple nominal constructions, but not by judgment task results for complex nominal constructions. I assume that adjectival presence in complex nominal constructions may have to do with this. Implications of my results for the theories and the methodologies are discussed.Show less
