Variation and Evolution
Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world
This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of how native and non-native varieties of Spanish co-exist with other languages and dialects under the influence of several linguistic and extra-linguistic forces. While some papers analyze the linguistic dynamics affecting Spanish grammars from a cross-dialectal perspective, others focus more closely on the relations established between Spanish and other languages with which it is in contact. In particular, some of these studies show how power and prestige may support (or not) the use of Spanish in different social contexts and educational realities, given that the attitudes toward this language vary greatly across the Spanish-speaking world. On the one hand, in some regions, Spanish represents the variety spoken by the majority of the population, typically related to prestige and power (Spain and Latin America). On the other hand, in other contexts, the same language is conceived as a minority variety, which may or may not be associated with stigmatized immigrant groups (i.e., in the US).
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 29] 2020. viii, 277 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 29 July 2020
Published online on 29 July 2020
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Social and linguistic factors shaping language dynamics across the Spanish-speaking worldSandro Sessarego, Juan Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli | pp. 1–8
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Part I. Morpho-syntax & semantics
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Chapter 1. Cross-dialectal productivity of the Spanish subjunctive in nominal clause complementsScott A. Schwenter and Mark Hoff | pp. 11–32
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Chapter 2. Mood selection in a contact variety: The case of Yucatec SpanishKathryn Bove | pp. 33–54
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Chapter 3. A corpus analysis of the structural elaboration of Spanish heritage language learnersKarina Collentine and Joseph Collentine | pp. 55–74
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Chapter 4. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in the Andean Spanish verbLuis Andrade Ciudad | pp. 75–104
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Part II. Phonetics & phonology
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Chapter 5. Realizations of /b/ in the Spanish of Lima, PeruKara Yarrington | pp. 107–126
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Chapter 6. Did you say peso or beso? The perception of prevoicing by L2 Spanish learnersMatthew Pollock | pp. 127–162
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Chapter 7. Sheísmo in Montevideo Spanish: Not (yet) identical to Buenos AiresJim Michnowicz and Lucía Planchón | pp. 163–186
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Part III. Language attitudes & choice
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Chapter 8. ‘Debemos aprender y manejar un poco mejor el español’: An approach to the linguistic attitudes of the Afro-Peruvian people in the district of El Carmen (Chincha)Pamela Jiménez Lizama | pp. 189–210
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Chapter 9. Language choice and use by bilingual preschoolers: Evidence from a Spanish immersion preschool contextCarolina Barrera Tobón, Sung Park-Johnson and Jazmín Brito | pp. 211–230
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Chapter 10. Decolonial sociolinguistics gestures of Andean Quechua-Spanish bilingual college students promoting QuechuaYuliana Kenfield | pp. 231–252
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Chapter 11. New Mochica and the challenge of reviving an extinct languageRita Eloranta and Angela Bartens | pp. 253–274
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Index | pp. 275–277
Cited by (6)
Cited by six other publications
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Otheguy, Ricardo
Wheeler, Jamelyn, Matthew Pollock & Manuel Díaz-Campos
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2ADS: Linguistics/Spanish
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative