Lexical Borrowing and Deborrowing in Spanish in New York City - Towards a Synthesis of Social Correlates of Lexical Use Diffusion in

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Varra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and in Linguistics at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. Zusammenfassung Lexical Borrowing and Deborrowing in Spanish in New York City provides a sociodemographic portrait of lexical borrowing in Spanish in New York City. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Lexical Borrowing Database: Classifying lexical contact phenomena Chapter 3: The corpus and analysis Chapter 4: An overview of lexical borrowing behavior in Spanish in New York City Chapter 5: Immigrant generations in focus Chapter 6: Innovation, reproduction and the dissemination of lexical borrowings in Spanish in New York City Chapter 7: Deborrowing: Flagged lexical borrowings in Spanish in New York City Chapter 8: Synthesis and application of findings Appendix A: Stratification of the Otheguy-Zentella Corpus of Spanish in NYC Appendix B: Excerpts from the Otheguy-Zentella Corpus by referring chapter Appendix C: Results of the homonymy test Appendix D: Criteria for lexical borrowing by part of speech category

Product details

• Authors: VARRA, Rachel Varra, Rachel (University of Miami Varra
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781138222052
• ISBN: 978-1-138-22205-2
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics; Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Spanish, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Sociolinguistics, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Language teaching and learning, Literature: history and criticism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)