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International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Table of contents, Volume 29, Number 2
New Mexican Spanish: A Brief History Of Time, Space, And Family Values, Garland D. Bills
New Mexican Spanish: A Brief History Of Time, Space, And Family Values, Garland D. Bills
International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
2010 Plenary Address
The Influence Of Social And Linguistic Factors On Spanish Dialect Contact In The U.S.: A Look At Mexican And Cuban Spanish In Lansing, Michigan, Gabriel G. Alfaraz
The Influence Of Social And Linguistic Factors On Spanish Dialect Contact In The U.S.: A Look At Mexican And Cuban Spanish In Lansing, Michigan, Gabriel G. Alfaraz
International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
An increase in the number of Spanish-speaking Latinos in the U.S. provides opportunities for contact of diverse varieties of Spanish. This paper examines the role of factors including age. education. linguistic network composition, and length of residence in shaping the outcome of contact between groups of Spanish speakers in Lansing. Michigan. A sample of 52 Mexicans and Cubans was used to examine two linguistic variables in spoken data collected in sociolinguistic interviews that included picture-elicitation tasks and grammatical acceptability tasks, following the idea that variation is a reflection of grammaticality (Fasold and Preston 2007), to probe sensitivity to out- and …
Unexpected Case Assignment And Preposition Doubling In Pronoun Coordination In Spanish, Carlos Gonzalex-Vergara, Hernan Labbe G.
Unexpected Case Assignment And Preposition Doubling In Pronoun Coordination In Spanish, Carlos Gonzalex-Vergara, Hernan Labbe G.
International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
The following paper is based on the observation of two related phenomena in Spanish. First, when two personal pronouns acting as prepositional objects are coordinated, they are usually constructed by repeating the preposition before each member of the coordination. Secondly, when this does not happen, the second member of the coordination does not appear in oblique case (which would be expected to happen through government), but it appears in nominative case. This can be clearly appreciated in the coordination of pronouns that display morphological case. The purpose of this paper is to explain these phenomena within the Minimalist Program. The …
Las Interrogativas Hendidas En Español: ¿Cómo Es Que Se Usan?, Javier Rivas, Esther Brown
Las Interrogativas Hendidas En Español: ¿Cómo Es Que Se Usan?, Javier Rivas, Esther Brown
International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Resumen: Este trabajo ofrece una aproximación basada en el uso a las construcciones interrogativas hendidas del español, las cuales han recibido muy poca atención en la bibliografía. Utilizando una metodología variacionista. extrajimos 500 construcciones interrogativas parciales directas de un corpus del español conversacional puertorriqueño. Determinamos las características morfosintácticas de dichas construcciones y. basándonos en un análisis de regresión múltiple, mostramos qué factores lingüísticos contribuyen a la aparición de las construcciones interrogativas hendidas en el discurso espontáneo (función pragmática y temporalidad verbal). El análisis del corpus nos permite establecer que las interrogativas hendidas son estructuras marcadas en términos estructurales y textuales. …
The Discourse Of Blogs And Wikis. By Greg Myers, Regina Morin
The Discourse Of Blogs And Wikis. By Greg Myers, Regina Morin
International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Review of The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis. by Greg Myers. London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010. Pp. 180.
Introducción A La Lingüística Hispánica. By Hualde, José Ignacio, Michelle F. Ramos-Pellicia
Introducción A La Lingüística Hispánica. By Hualde, José Ignacio, Michelle F. Ramos-Pellicia
International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Review of Introducción a la lingüística hispánica. By Hualde, José Ignacio, Antxon Olarrea, Anna María Escobar and Catherine E. Travis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2nd ed. 554. Hardback $80.00.
Research Methods In Linguistics. By Lia Litosseliti, Valerie J. Trujillo
Research Methods In Linguistics. By Lia Litosseliti, Valerie J. Trujillo
International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Review of Research Methods in Linguistics. by Lia Litosseliti. London: Continuum, 2010. Pp. 240. Hardback $120.00.