Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish
A Cross-Dialectal Perspective
Published on 26. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-62616-170-2 (ISBN)
Description
Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading experts on the topic of language variation in Spanish to provide a panoramic view of research trends, develop probabilistic models of grammar, and investigate the impact of language contact on pronoun expression. The book consists of three sections. The first studies the distributional patterns and conditioning forces on subject pronoun expression in four monolingual varieties - Dominican, Colombian, Mexican, and Peninsular - and makes cross-dialectal comparisons. In the second section, experts explore Spanish in contact with English, Maya, Catalan, and Portuguese to determine the extent to which each language influences this syntactic variable. The final section examines the acquisition of variable subject pronoun expression among monolingual and bilingual children as well as adult second language learners.
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Impeccably written and clearly organized, thus providing models for current and future researchers to follow. * Hispania *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington, DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
603 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62616-170-2 (9781626161702)
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Ana M. Carvalho | Rafael Orozco | Naomi Lapidus Shin
Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish
A Cross-Dialectal Perspective
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03/2015
Georgetown University Press
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Persons
Ana M. Carvalho is an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. Rafael Orozco is an assistant professor of Spanish linguistics at Louisiana State University. Naomi Lapidus Shin is an assistant professor of Spanish and linguistics at the University of New Mexico.
Content
PrefaceRicardo Otheguy IntroductionAna M. Carvalho, Rafael Orozco, and Naomi Lapidus Shin Part I: Subject Pronoun Expression in Monolingual Varieties of Spanish1. Variation of Overt and Null Subject Pronouns in the Spanish of Santo DomingoGabriela G. Alfaraz 2. Pronominal Variation in Colombian Costeno SpanishRafael Orozco 3. Subject Pronoun Expression in Oral Mexican SpanishYolanda Lastra and Pedro Martin Butragueno 4. Subject Pronoun Usage in Formulaic Sequences: Evidence from Peninsular SpanishPekka Posio Part II: Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with Other Languages5. Foundations for the Study of Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with English: Assessing Intralinguistic (Dis)similarity via Intralinguistic VariabilityRena Torres Cacoullos and Catherine E. Travis 6. Subject Pronoun Expression in Contact with Maya in Yucatan SpanishJim Michnowicz 7. First Person Singular Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with CatalanAna de Prada Perez8. Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with PortugueseAna M. Carvalho and Ryan M. Bessett Part III: Subject Pronoun Expression in Contexts of Acquisition 9. The Emergence of Structured Variability in Morphosyntax: Childhood Acquisition of Spanish Subject PronounsNaomi Lapidus Shin and Daniel Erker 10. Variable Subject Expression in Second Language Spanish: Uncovering the Developmental Sequence and Predictive Linguistic FactorsKimberly Geeslin, Bret Linford, and Stephen Fafulas 11. The Acquisition of Grammatical Subjects by Spanish-English BilingualsCarmen Silva-Corvalan 12. Subject Expression in Bilingual School-age Children in the United StatesSilvina Montrul and Noelia Sanchez-WalkerContributors Index