Spanish in Four Continents

by Silva-Corvalan, Carmen

• ISBN13: 9780878406494
• ISBN10: 0878406492
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr

Summary

This collection examines the effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on the development of dialectal varieties of Spanish in Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Nineteen essays investigate a variety of complex situations of contact between typologically different languages, including Basque, Bantu languages, English, and Quechua.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Part One Introduction	1	(34)
CARMEN SILVA-CORVALAN
The Study of Language Contact: An Overview of the Issues	3	(12)
SARAH G. THOMASON
Language Mixture: Ordinary Processes, Extraordinary Results	15	(20)
Part Two Spanish in the Americas	35	(206)
JONI KAY HURLEY
The Impact of Quichua on Verb Forms Used in Spanish Requests in Otavalo, Ecuador	39	(13)
CAROL A. KLEE
ALICIA M. OCAMPO
The Expression of Past Reference in Spanish Narratives of Spanish-Quechua Bilingual Speakers	52	(19)
FRANCISCO A. OCAMPO
CAROL A. KLEE
Spanish OV/VO Word-Order Variation in Spanish-Quechua Bilingual Speakers	71	(12)
MERCEDES NINO-MURCIA
The Gerund in the Spanish of the North Andean Region	83	(18)
JUAN CARLOS GODENZZI
The Spanish Language in Contact With Quechua and Aymara: The Use of the Article	101	(16)
ADOLFO ELIZAINCIN
Personal Pronouns for Inanimate Entities in Uruguayan Spanish in Contact With Portuguese	117	(15)
JILL BRODY
Lending the 'Unborrowable': Spanish Discourse Markers in Indigenous American Languages	132	(16)
AMPARO MORALES
The Loss of the Spanish Impersonal Particle se Among Bilinguals: A Descriptive Profile	148	(17)
ALAN HUDSON
EDUARDO HERNANDEZ CHAVEZ
GARLAND D. BILLS
The Many Faces of Language Maintenance: Spanish Language Claiming in Five Southwestern States	165	(19)
OFELIA GARCIA
MILAGROS CUEVAS
Spanish Ability and Use Among Second-Generation Nuyoricans	184	(12)
MARYELLEN GARCIA
En los sabados, en la manana, en veces: A Look at en in the Spanish of San Antonio	196	(18)
MANUEL J. GUTIERREZ
On the Future of the Future Tense in the Spanish of the Southwest	214	(13)
LUCIA ELIAS-OLIVARES
Discourse Strategies of Mexican American Spanish	227	(14)
Part Three Spanish in the Basque Country	241	(38)
HERNAN URRUTIA CARDENAS
Morphosyntactic Features in the Spanish of the Basque Country	243	(17)
ITZIAR IDIAZABAL
First Stages in the Acquisition of Noun Phrase Determiners by a Basque-Spanish Bilingual Child	260	(19)
Part Four Spanish in Africa and Asia	279
CELIA CASADO-FRESNILLO
Resultados del contacto del espanol con el arabe y con las lenguas autoctonas de Guinea Ecuatorial	281	(12)
ANTONIO QUILIS
El espanol en Filipinas	293