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Publication details [#23280]
Silva-Corvalán, Carmen. 1986. Bilingualism and language change: The extension of `estar' in Los Angeles Spanish. Language 62 (3) : 587–608. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This paper investigates the influence of language contact on the extension of 'estar' among Spanish bilinguals in Los Angeles. It appears that language contact accelerates internally-motivated syntactic-semantic changes in the less-used language, Spanish.