Spanish in Colombia and New York City : language contact meets dialectal convergence / Rafael Orozco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orozco, Rafael, 1959- author.

Series:

Impact, studies in language and society ; Volume 46.

IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society, 1385-7908 ; Volume 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Variation.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Dialects--Colombia.

Spanish language--Dialects--New York (State)--New York.

Linguistic change--Colombia.

Linguistic change.

Linguistic change--New York (State)--New York.

Languages in contact--New York (State)--New York.

Languages in contact.

Indians of South America--Languages--Social aspects.

Indians of South America.

Sociolinguistics--Comparative method.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

Summary:

This volume fills a void in language variation and change research. It is the first to provide an empirical, comparative study of Spanish in Colombia and New York City. Remarkable similarities in the linguistic conditioning on language variation in both communities contrast with interesting differences in the effects of social predictors. The book provides a window into the effects of language and dialect contact on change and serves as a model for studies comparing diasporic populations to their home speech communities.

Contents:

Intro

Spanish in Colombia and New York City

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

About the author

Preface

Introduction

1.1 Preliminary remarks

1.2 Colombian Spanish

1.2.1 Colombian dialectology

1.2.2 Sociolinguistic variation

1.3 Spanish in New York City

1.4 Methodology

1.4.1 The speech communities

Barranquilla

The New York Colombian community

1.4.2 Data: The corpora and the speakers

1.4.3 Hypotheses and research questions

1.5 Scope of the volume

The expression of futurity

2.1 The expression of futurity in Spanish

2.1.1 The morphological future (MF)

2.1.2 The simple present (SP) or futurate present

2.1.3 The periphrastic future (PF)

2.1.4 The future around the world

2.2 Methodology

2.2.1 Research questions and hypotheses

2.2.2 Predictors examined

2.2.3 The envelope of variation and the analysis

2.3 Distribution of variants

2.4 Internal conditioning effects

2.4.1 Clause-level predictors

Clause length

Clause type

Temporal distance

2.4.2 Subject-level predictors

Grammatical number of the subject

2.4.3 Predicate-level predictors

Verb transitivity

Adverbial specification

Length of MF inflection

2.5 Discussion

2.6 Conclusion

The expression of nominal possession

3.1 The Spanish nominal possessive

3.2 Methodology

3.2.1 Research questions and hypotheses

3.2.2 Predictors examined

3.2.3 The envelope of possessive variation and the analysis

3.3 Distribution of possessive variants

3.4 Internal conditioning effects on the possessive

3.4.1 Clause-level predictors

Length of the clause containing the possessive (clause length)

Distance between the referent and the possessive

3.4.2 Subject-level predictors

Location of the possessive

Type of subject.

3.4.3 Genitive NP-level predictors

Presence of adjectives in the genitive NP

Grammatical gender and number of the possessee

Grammatical person, number, and animacy of the possessor

Semantic category of the possessed noun

3.5 Discussion

3.6 Conclusion

Variable subject personal pronoun expression

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Methodology

4.2.1 Research questions and hypotheses

4.2.2 Predictors examined

4.2.3 The envelope of SPE variation and the analysis

4.3 Distribution of overt and null subjects

4.4 Linguistic conditioning on pronominal usage

4.4.1 Clause-related predictors

4.4.2 Subject-related predictors

Priming

Switch reference

Grammatical person and number of the subject

4.4.3 Verb-related predictors

Verbal tense, mood &amp

aspect (TMA)

Lexical content of verb

Verb type

Another take at the effects of the verb on SPE

4.5 Discussion

4.6 Conclusion

Effects of social predictors

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Methodology

5.2.1 Research questions and hypotheses

5.2.2 Predictors explored

Conversation conditions

Educational attainment

Socioeconomic status

Speaker's age

Gender

Arrival age

Length of US residency (LOR)

Linguistic competence/repertoire

5.2.3 The analysis

5.3 The expression of futurity

5.3.1 Gender

5.3.2 Educational attainment

5.3.3 Speaker's age

5.3.4 Length of U.S. residency (LOR)/arrival age

5.4 The expression of nominal possession

5.4.1 Gender

5.4.2 Educational attainment

5.4.3 Speaker's age/socioeconomic status (SES)

5.4.4 Length of U.S. residence (LOR)

5.4.5 Age of arrival in the US

5.5 Social conditioning on subject pronoun expression (SPE)

5.5.1 Conversation conditions

5.5.2 Effects of gender/age on SPE

5.6 Discussion

5.7 Conclusion

Conclusions

6.1 Summary.

6.2 Discussion and implications

6.3 Concluding remarks

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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