This collection is the first to examine the effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on the development of dialectal varieties of Spanish in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Nineteen essays investigate a variety of complex situations of contact between Spanish and typologically different languages, including Basque, Bantu languages, English, and Quechua. The overall picture that evolves clearly indicates that although influence from the contact languages may lead to different dialects, the core grammar of Spanish remains intact. Silva-Corvalan's volume makes an important contribution both to sociolinguistics in general, and to Spanish linguistics in particular. The contributors address theoretical and empirical issues that advance our knowledge of what is a possible linguistic change, how languages change, and how changes spread in society in situations of intensive bilingualism and language contact, a situation that appears to be the norm rather than the exception in the world.
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Students of Spanish as a world language will find both new data and new interpretations of familiar bilingual environments. Language The first book dedicated to language contact and bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world ... an excellent beginning. Those interested in knowing more about language contact phenomena in the Spanish-speaking world will not be disappointed by this collection. Studies in Second Language Acquisition
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"Students of Spanish as a world language will find both new data and new interpretations of familiar bilingual environments."John M. Lipski, Language -- John M. Lipski * Language *
Acknowledgments xi Part One Introduction 1(34) CARMEN SILVA-CORVALAN The Study of Language Contact: An Overview of the Issues 3(12) SARAH G. THOMASON Language Mixture: Ordinary Processes, Extraordinary Results 15(20) Part Two Spanish in the Americas 35(206) JONI KAY HURLEY The Impact of Quichua on Verb Forms Used in Spanish Requests in Otavalo, Ecuador 39(13) CAROL A. KLEE ALICIA M. OCAMPO The Expression of Past Reference in Spanish Narratives of Spanish-Quechua Bilingual Speakers 52(19) FRANCISCO A. OCAMPO CAROL A. KLEE Spanish OV/VO Word-Order Variation in Spanish-Quechua Bilingual Speakers 71(12) MERCEDES NINO-MURCIA The Gerund in the Spanish of the North Andean Region 83(18) JUAN CARLOS GODENZZI The Spanish Language in Contact With Quechua and Aymara: The Use of the Article 101(16) ADOLFO ELIZAINCIN Personal Pronouns for Inanimate Entities in Uruguayan Spanish in Contact With Portuguese 117(15) JILL BRODY Lending the Unborrowable: Spanish Discourse Markers in Indigenous American Languages 132(16) AMPARO MORALES The Loss of the Spanish Impersonal Particle se Among Bilinguals: A Descriptive Profile 148(17) ALAN HUDSON EDUARDO HERNANDEZ CHAVEZ GARLAND D. BILLS The Many Faces of Language Maintenance: Spanish Language Claiming in Five Southwestern States 165(19) OFELIA GARCIA MILAGROS CUEVAS Spanish Ability and Use Among Second-Generation Nuyoricans 184(12) MARYELLEN GARCIA En los sabados, en la manana, en veces: A Look at en in the Spanish of San Antonio 196(18) MANUEL J. GUTIERREZ On the Future of the Future Tense in the Spanish of the Southwest 214(13) LUCIA ELIAS-OLIVARES Discourse Strategies of Mexican American Spanish 227(14) Part Three Spanish in the Basque Country 241(38) HERNAN URRUTIA CARDENAS Morphosyntactic Features in the Spanish of the Basque Country 243(17) ITZIAR IDIAZABAL First Stages in the Acquisition of Noun Phrase Determiners by a Basque-Spanish Bilingual Child 260(19) Part Four Spanish in Africa and Asia 279 CELIA CASADO-FRESNILLO Resultados del contacto del espanol con el arabe y con las lenguas autoctonas de Guinea Ecuatorial 281(12) ANTONIO QUILIS El espanol en Filipinas 293
Carmen Silva-Corvalan is a professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Sociolinguistica: Teoria y analisis (Alhambra, 1989) and Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 1994).
