Spanish in New York - Language Contact, Dialectal Leveling, and Structural Continuity

Zusatztext It presents a painstakingly rigorous and ultimately fascinating account of the effects of contact with English on New York City Spanish. Equally importantly, it addresses the effects of contact with other varieties of Spanish. Informationen zum Autor Ricardo Otheguy is Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.Ana Celia Zentella is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego. Klappentext Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it is found in Latin America. Zusammenfassung Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it is found in Latin America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Continuity, language contact, and dialectical leveling in Spanish in NYC 2: Interviews and transcripts 3: The envelope of variation and the formation of the corpus 4: The pronoun rate: Delineating New York Latino communities 5: Language contact: Generation, exposure, and English ability groups 6: Dialectal leveling in Spanish in New York 7: A multivariate approach to continuity, contact, and leveling 8: Internal evidence for continuity and contact 9: Internal evidence for continuity and leveling 10: The grammar of bilinguals in New York Bibliography Appendix 1 - Questionnaire Appendix 2 - Coding Manual ...

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• Authors: Ricardo Otheguy, Ricardo (Professor of Linguistics Otheguy, Ricardo/ Zentella Otheguy, Otheguy Ricardo, Ana Celia Zentella, Ana Celia (Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies Zentella, Zentella Ana Celia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2011
• EAN: 9780199737390
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973739-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics; Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics; Oxford Studies in Sociolinguis
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Spanish, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism