Virginia Bertolotti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Virginia Bertolotti plays a role.
Articles
2020 Attitudes toward Portuguese in Uruguay in the nineteenth century New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bugel, Talia and Cecilia Montes-Alcalá (eds.), pp. 111–136 | Chapter
The Uruguay-Brazil border has been a porous geographical area since colonial times, giving rise to intense contact between Portuguese and Spanish, further fostered by a shared economic and demographic foundation. Here we analyze attitudes toward border Portuguese and that language in general in the… read more
2016 Voseo and tuteo, the countryside and the city: Voseo in Río de la Plata Spanish at the beginning of the 19th century Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas, Moyna, María Irene and Susana Rivera-Mills (eds.), pp. 15–34 | Article
This study presents new evidence that supports the idea that at the beginning of the 19th century there were two distinct norms used by Spanish speakers in the Río de la Plata region as forms of address: an American/rural norm (vos tenés/tenéis) and a European/urban norm (tú tienes). That explains… read more
2008 La frontera Uruguay–Brasil: Análisis lingüístico de un corpus del siglo XIX Spanish in Context 5:1, pp. 20–39 | Article
Este artículo analiza el contacto entre el español y el portugués en la frontera Uruguay-Brasil en el siglo XIX a través de documentos judiciales del Archivo General de la Nación, Uruguay. Primeramente establecimos una tipología de los documentos que nos permitió poner de manifiesto la existencia… read more