Christina García
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christina García plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 4. Variation and pragmatic enrichment: Dar + gerund in Highland Ecuadorian Spanish Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan, Díaz-Campos, Manuel and Sandro Sessarego (eds.), pp. 69–94 | Chapter
Dar + gerund is a periphrastic benefactive found in the Spanish of highland Ecuador and southern Colombia. Prior research has focused on the construction’s origin, syntactic constraints, and politeness: the present study examines the pragmatic restrictions of dar + gerund declaratives. Using… read more
2020 Seeds of change: Social factors conditioning intervocalic /s/ voicing in Loja, Ecuador Spanish in Context 17:3, pp. 438–463 | Article
Intervocalic /s/ voicing is of much interest recently in Hispanic Linguistics for two principal reasons: this feature has been attested in diverse dialects of Spanish, and it has been shown to correlate in production and perception with social factors (Davidson 2014; Chappell 2016; García 2019;… read more
2019 Chapter 4. Regional identity in Highland Ecuador: Social evaluation of intervocalic /s/ voicing Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception, Chappell, Whitney (ed.), pp. 125–152 | Chapter
Of considerable interest to linguists recently is the variable voicing of intervocalic /s/, which has been attested in dialects as diverse as Ecuadorian (Chappell, 2011; García, 2015; among others) and Catalonian Spanish (Davidson, 2014; McKinnon, 2012), among others. While our knowledge of the… read more