Publications

Publication details [#33022]

Torres Cacoullos, Rena and Jessi Elana Aaron. 2003. Bare English-origin nouns in Spanish: Rates, constraints, and discourse functions. Language Variation and Change 15 (3) : 289–328.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | discourse analysis | loanword

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0954-3945

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This corpus-based study of bare English-origin nouns occurring spontaneously in New Mexican Spanish discourse, explores the hypothesis that single other-language-origin words are nonce loans as opposed to code-switches.