Contemporary advances in theoretical and applied Spanish linguistic variation / edited by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Colomina Almiñana, Juan José, editor.

Series:

Theoretical developments in Hispanic linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Variation.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Social aspects.

Sociolinguistics.

Languages in contact.

Physical Description:

viii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Contemporary Advances in Theoretical and Applied Spanish Linguistic Variation, edited by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana, reframes our understanding of language variation and change as an intimate interplay between both linguistic features and social factors always occurring in unison in the same historical process. The volume's ten chapters, divided into four parts, provide both a synchronic and a diachronic view of Hispanic sociolinguistics, not only focusing on the historical development of Spanish as a Romance language but also analyzing certain idiosyncratic elements of nonstandard Spanish varieties across multiple regions, nations, and diasporas. In addition, the volume offers an enchronic perspective of this phenomenon by analyzing how certain sustained cultural practices may drive concrete linguistic developments. This volume makes three major contributions to Hispanic sociolinguistics. First, it covers variation in less commonly studied varieties, which are new areas of interest in a broader world where certain minorities and their languages are crucial. Second, it offers recent and innovative approaches to variation coming from formal theories in order to spark a debate about methodology that is more comprehensive of the diverse approaches to variation currently practiced in the field. Finally, it includes chapters that combine quantitative and qualitative analysis of different linguistic variables. Book jacket.

Contents:

Glimpses of Proto-Ibero-romance in Neapolitan and other southern Italian mainland vernaculars / John M. Ryan

Rhotacism of /s/ in Elche Spanish: social and linguistic factors conditioning the reduction / Whitney Chappell and Francisco Martínez Ibarra

Pragmatic and semantic factors for the resumption strategy in Spanish relative clauses / Irene Checa-García

The role of subjectivity in discourse marker variation / Sarah Sinnott

Linguistic attitudes in Argentine Spanish: (de)queismo, DOM, and the subjunctive / Mark Hoff and Rosa María Piqueres Gilabert

Voseo vocatives and interjections in Montevideo Spanish / María Irene Moyna

Genre and register variation: academic conference presentations in Spanish in the United States / Carolina Viera

A feature-geometry account for subject-verb agreement phenomena in Yungeño Spanish / Sandro Sessarego

Agreement and valuation of phi-features in Judeo-Spanish: a cross-generational account / Rey Romero

Psych predicates, light verbs, and phase theory: on the implications of case assignment to the experiencer in non-leista experience predicates / Ricard Viñas de Puig.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.

ISBN:

9780814213391

0814213391

OCLC:

974912678