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Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives
Edited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 22] 2020
► pp. 315–334

Chapter 13
On the effects of Catalan contact in the variable expression of Spanish future tense

A contrastive study of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid and Palma, Majorca

| Universitat de les Illes Balears
| Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

This paper aims to test the influence of Catalan-Spanish bilingualism in the variable distribution of the morphological future (MF) cantaré and the periphrastic variant (PF) voy a cantar in Spanish. As Catalan does not have a PF, it has been suggested that in the areas where Spanish coexists with Catalan the MF is relatively more used. A contrastive study of a bilingual community (Palma de Mallorca) and a Spanish monolingual one (Alcalá de Henares) confirms this hypothesis: the frequency of use of the MF among bilinguals is double what it is in a non-contact setting. At the same time, however, the two speech communities yield similar results in regard to the semantic values associated to each of the forms.

Keywords: language change, language variation, Spanish–Catalan contact, future tense
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Contact and inhibition of change
  • 3.Corpus and methodology
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Effects of bilingualism in the distribution of variants
    • 4.2Internal factors
    • 4.3Age, gender and level of instruction
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 14 February 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.22.13enr
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