Spanish in Colombia and New York City: Language contact meets dialectal convergence
Rafael Orozco
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 46] 2018. xv, 193 pp.
Rafael Orozco
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rafael Orozco plays a role.
Title
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2018 About the author Spanish in Colombia and New York City: Language contact meets dialectal convergence, Orozco, Rafael, p. | Miscellaneous
2014 The future tense in Spanish L2 textbooks Spanish in Context 11:1, pp. 27–49 | Article
This paper revisits the treatment of the expression of futurity in Spanish foreign language (FL) textbooks. We analyzed twenty college-level Spanish FL textbooks to determine and quantify how futurity is represented. Variationist research has shown the periphrastic future (PF) to be the most… read more
2010 Variation in the expression of nominal possession in Costeño Spanish Spanish in Context 7:2, pp. 194–220 | Article
To express nominal possession, Spanish speakers use a linguistic variable with three variants: a possessive adjective, a definite article and periphrasis. This study explores the expression of possession in Barranquilla, Colombia examining data extracted from sociolinguistic interviews with a… read more
2007 17. The impact of linguistic constraints on the expression of futurity in the Spanish of New York Colombians Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries, Potowski, Kim and Richard Cameron (eds.), pp. 309–325 | Article
Language contact often acts as a catalyst of language change. However, according to Guy's (2000) theory, the linguistic factors constraining language change and variation are consistent within different segments of a speech community. In this study, after determining the distribution of the… read more