Contemporary trends in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics : selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015 / edited by Jonathan E. MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

MacDonald, Jonathan E., editor.

Conference Name:

Hispanic Linguistic Symposium (19th : 2015 : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Series:

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ; Volume 15.

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2213-3887 ; Volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Congresses.

Spanish language.

Portuguese language--Congresses.

Portuguese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics offers a panorama of current research into multiple varieties of Spanish from several different regions (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras), Catalan, Brazilian Portuguese, as well as varieties in contact with English and Purépecha. The first part of the volume focuses on the structural aspects and use of these languages in the areas of syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, diachrony, phonetics, phonology and morphology. The second part discusses the effect of interacting multiple grammars, namely, first language acquisition, second language acquisition, varieties in contact, and bilingualism. As a whole, the contributions in this volume provide a methodological balance between qualitative and quantitative approaches to Language and, in this way, represent contemporary trends in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

Part 1. Language structure and use

Chapter 1. se -marked directed motion constructions

Chapter 2. Subcategorization and change

Chapter 3. Variable clitic placement in US Spanish

Chapter 4. Variable negative concord in Brazilian Portuguese

Chapter 5. The simultaneous lenition of Spanish /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ as a chain shift in progress

Chapter 6. Are Argentines a- blind?

Chapter 7. The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies

Chapter 8. The past persists into the present

Chapter 9. “El vos nuestro es, ¡Ey vos , chigüín!”

Part 2. Interacting grammars

Chapter 10. Acquisition of articulatory control or language-specific coarticulatory patterns?

Chapter 11. Voice onset time and the child foreign language learner of Spanish

Chapter 12. “Extraña uno lo que es la tortillas”

Chapter 13. Mothers’ use of F0 after the first year of life in American English and Peninsular Spanish

Chapter 14. Extra-syntactic factors in the that- trace effect

Chapter 15. An initial examination of imperfect subjunctive variation in Catalonian Spanish

Chapter 16. Testing English influence on first person singular “yo” subject pronoun expression in Sonoran Spanish

Index

Notes:

Papers presented at the annual Hispanic Linguistic Symposium (HLS) held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 24-27, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027264619 (pdf)