Spanish in Four Continents - Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism

Informationen zum Autor Carmen Silva-Corvalan is a professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Sociolinguistica: Teoria y analisis (Alhambra! 1989) and Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles (Oxford University Press! 1994). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Examines the effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on the development of dialectal varieties of Spanish in Africa! America! Asia and Europe. In this title! nineteen essays investigate a variety of complex situations of contact between Spanish and typologically different languages! including Basque! Bantu languages! English! and Quechua.

Product details

• Authors: Carmen Silva-Corvalan, Carmen Silva-Corvalán
• Assisted by: Hector Campos (Editor), Carmen Silva-Corvalan (Editor), Carmen Silva-Corvalán (Editor)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1997
• EAN: 9780878406494
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-649-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Georgetown Studies in Romance; Spanish in Four Continents
• 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, Sociolinguistics, Spanish