Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change

Spanish across space and time

Editors

Jeremy King

| Louisiana State University

Sandro Sessarego

| University of Texas at Austin / Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies/Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies/Foro Latinoamericano de Antropología del Derecho

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This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus. It deals with both native and non-native varieties of the language, and includes both synchronic and diachronic studies. The volume addresses, and challenges, current theoretical assumptions on the nature of language variation and contact-induced change through empirically-based linguistic research. The sustained contact between Spanish and other languages in different parts of the world has given rise to a wide number of changes in the language, which are driven by a concomitance of different linguistic and social processes. This collection of articles provides new insight into such phenomena across the Spanish-speaking world.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 340] 2018. vi, 336 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.340

Table of Contents

Introduction Sandro Sessarego and Jeremy King	1–8
Part I. Population migration and contact-induced language change
Chapter 1. Spatial reconfigurations of Spanish in postmodernity: The relationship to English and minoritized languages Andrew Lynch	11–34
Chapter 2. Female migration and its impact on language choice and use among Afro-Costa Rican women Lisbeth A. Philip	35–62
Chapter 3. Hard come, easy go: Linguistic interfaces in Istanbulite Judeo-Spanish and Afro-Ecuadorian Spanish Rey Romero and Sandro Sessarego	63–81
Part II. Internal and external factors in pragmatic variation
Chapter 4. Afro-Hispanic contact varieties at the syntax/pragmatics interface: Pro-drop phenomena in Chinchano Spanish Sandro Sessarego and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach	85–110
Chapter 5. Borrowed Spanish discourse markers in narrative: A comparison across three generations of Tojol-ab’al (Mayan) speakers Mary Jill Brody	111–125
Chapter 6. Hasta perder la última gota de mi sangre : Variation in commissive speech act behavior in Colonial Louisiana Spanish Jeremy King	127–151
Chapter 7. Discourse markers in variation: Por tanto vs. por lo tanto Sarah Sinnott	153–171
Part III. Morphosyntactic variation and change
Chapter 8. Yo no le conocí a mi abuela : The use of clitics le, lo, and la in Amazonian Colombian Spanish Héctor Ramírez-Cruz	175–198
Chapter 9. Attitudes toward morphosyntactic variation in the Spanish of Valencian speakers Rosa María Piqueres Gilabert and Matthew Fuss	199–222
Chapter 10. Stable variation or change in progress? A sociolinguistic analysis of pa(ra) in the Spanish of Venezuela Stephen Fafulas, Manuel Díaz-Campos and Michael Gradoville	223–245
Part IV. Current issues in bilingual variation
Chapter 11. El futuro es perifrástico : Future tense expression in a bilingual U.S. Mexican community Kendall Kyzar	249–277
Chapter 12. L2 Spanish in the U.S. and the question of motivation: Changing trends in post-secondary language study Terri Schroth and Bryant Smith	279–297
Chapter 13. Espero estén todos : The distribution of the null subordinating complementizer in two varieties of Spanish Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli	299–333
Index	335–336

“This volume, which includes empirically-based studies conducted on Spanish varieties across the Americas, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula and the Bosporus, constitutes an important contribution to the literature on Hispanic contact linguistics, enriching our understanding of variation and change in the Spanish language in the postmodern era.”

Carol Klee, University of Minnesota

“This collection provides important new pieces to the puzzle of variation around the Spanish-speaking world, including macro and micro analyses as well as monolingual and bilingual contexts. Broad in scope and high in quality.”

Kim Potowski, University of Illinois at Chicago

“The contributions to this volume represent the state of the art in the study of variation in Spanish and the effects of contact on Spanish dialects, and King and Sessarego have done a masterful job in compiling such a strong collection. It will be a point of reference for scholars and graduate students for many years to come.”

Scott Schwenter, The Ohio State University

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2019. Publications Received. Language in Society 48:1 ► pp. 169 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Romance linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Contact Linguistics

BIC Subject: CF/2ADS – Linguistics/Spanish

BISAC Subject: LAN009010 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017046926 | Marc record