Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics
Published on 14. September 2017
280 pages
978-1-351-86906-5 (ISBN)
Description
Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics is an edited collection of original contributions which explores the idiosyncratic grammatical properties of Puerto Rican Spanish.
The book focuses on the structural aspects of linguistics, analysed with a variety of frameworks and methodological approaches, in order to presents the latest advances in the field of Puerto Rican and Caribbean linguistics.
Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics brings together articles from researchers proposing new, challenging, and ground-breaking analyses on the nature of Spanish in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican Spanish in the United States.
The book focuses on the structural aspects of linguistics, analysed with a variety of frameworks and methodological approaches, in order to presents the latest advances in the field of Puerto Rican and Caribbean linguistics.
Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics brings together articles from researchers proposing new, challenging, and ground-breaking analyses on the nature of Spanish in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican Spanish in the United States.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
43 Tables, black and white; 25 Line drawings, black and white
File size
2,42 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-86906-5 (9781351869065)
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Melvin Gonzalez-Rivera
Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics
Book
12/2019
1st Edition
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Melvin Gonzalez-Rivera
Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics
Book
09/2017
1st Edition
Routledge
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Person
Melvin Gonzalez-Rivera is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagueez.
Content
1. Introduction 2. A variationist account of Puerto Rican subject personal pronoun expression 3. Interaction among cognitive constraints: The case of the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish 4. The Nature and Position of Subjects in Puerto Rican Spanish Wh-questions: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications 5. Mitigation and indirectness in Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican Spanish in an institutional discourse setting 6. Phonetics and Phonology of /s?/ in the Spanish of Puerto Rico: Aspiration, Elision with Compensatory Lengthening, and Glottalization 7. Vowel Raising and Identity in the Highlands of Puerto Rico 8. Hiatus Resolution in Puerto Rican Spanish and Language Typology 9. On Puerto Rican Spanish Subjects
