Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish : A Cross-Dialectal Perspective / Ana M. Carvalho, Rafael Orozco, and Naomi Lapidus Shin, Editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shin, Naomi Lapidus, editor.

Orozco, Rafael, 1959- editor.

Carvalho, Ana Maria, editor.

Series:

Georgetown studies in Spanish linguistics.

Georgetown studies in Spanish linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Grammar.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Parts of speech.

Spanish language--Dialects.

Spanish language--Terms and phrases.

Spanish language--Pronouns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Georgetown University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading experts on the topic of language variation in Spanish to provide a panoramic view of research trends, develop probabilistic models of grammar, and investigate the impact of language contact on pronoun expression. The book consists of three sections. The first studies the distributional patterns and conditioning forces on subject pronoun expression in four monolingual varieties-Dominican, Colombian, Mexican, an

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Subject Pronoun Expression in Monolingual Varieties of Spanish; Chapter 1. Variation of Overt and Null Subject Pronouns in the Spanish of Santo Domingo; Chapter 2. Pronominal Variation in Colombian Costeño Spanish; Chapter 3. Subject Pronoun Expression in Oral Mexican Spanish; Chapter 4. Subject Pronoun Usage in Formulaic Sequences: Evidence from Peninsular Spanish; Part II: Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with Other Languages

Chapter 5. Foundations for the Study of Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with English: Assessing Interlinguistic (Dis)similarity via Intralinguistic VariabilityChapter 6. Subject Pronoun Expression in Contact with Maya in Yucatan Spanish; Chapter 7. First Person Singular Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with Catalan; Chapter 8. Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with Portuguese; Part III: Subject Pronoun Expression in Contexts of Acquisition

Chapter 9. The Emergence of Structured Variability in Morphosyntax: Childhood Acquisition of Spanish Subject PronounsChapter 10. Variable Subject Expression in Second Language Spanish: Uncovering the Developmental Sequence and Predictive Linguistic Factors; Chapter 11. The Acquisition of Grammatical Subjects by Spanish-English Bilinguals; Chapter 12. Subject Expression in Bilingual School-age Children in the United States; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62616-171-2

OCLC:

914153346