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Author : Cristian López
Release : 2007
Genre : Spanish language
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Book Synopsis Comparison of Subject Pronoun Expression in the Spanish of a Native Mexican and a Mexican-American Speaker by : Cristian López
Download or read book Comparison of Subject Pronoun Expression in the Spanish of a Native Mexican and a Mexican-American Speaker written by Cristian López. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ana M. Carvalho
Release : 2015-03-26
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish by : Ana M. Carvalho
Download or read book Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish written by Ana M. Carvalho. This book was released on 2015-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading experts on the topic of language variation in Spanish to provide a panoramic view of research trends, develop probabilistic models of grammar, and investigate the impact of language contact on pronoun expression. The book consists of three sections. The first studies the distributional patterns and conditioning forces on subject pronoun expression in four monolingual varieties—Dominican, Colombian, Mexican, and Peninsular—and makes cross-dialectal comparisons. In the second section, experts explore Spanish in contact with English, Maya, Catalan, and Portuguese to determine the extent to which each language influences this syntactic variable. The final section examines the acquisition of variable subject pronoun expression among monolingual and bilingual children as well as adult second language learners.
Author : Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor
Release : 2011-04-08
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty by : Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor
Download or read book The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty written by Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor. This book was released on 2011-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.
Author : Elly van Gelderen
Release : 2011-04-08
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Linguistic Cycle by : Elly van Gelderen
Download or read book The Linguistic Cycle written by Elly van Gelderen. This book was released on 2011-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.
Author : Philip P Limerick
Release : 2018
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Book Synopsis Subject Expression in a Southeastern U.S. Mexican Community by : Philip P Limerick
Download or read book Subject Expression in a Southeastern U.S. Mexican Community written by Philip P Limerick. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines language contact between Spanish and English in the Southeastern U.S. by analyzing Spanish spoken in Georgia. Through an analysis of immigrant Spanish in the city of Roswell, an exurb of Atlanta, potential contact-induced language change is investigated through the lens of subject expression. While most research on Spanish has been carried out in regions such as the Southwest and Northeast, the Southeastern U.S. has not received as much scholarly attention. Therefore, the present investigation seeks to examine understudied varieties of U.S. Spanish, specifically regarding the linguistic processes at work in recent language contact situations. Latin American immigration to the Southeast has led to recent demographic shift in this region and substantial Spanish-speaking populations are emerging that historically were not part of the Southeast. The city of Roswell in particular represents this demographic shift in the Southeast, making it an ideal test site for emerging bilingual speech communities. The current study examines subject expression among 20 Mexican immigrants using sociolinguistic interview data. The speakers' average length of residency (LOR) in the U.S. is 12 years, and their average age of arrival (AOA) is 27. Tokens of subject pronouns from the interviews were coded for language-internal (linguistic) variables previously shown to constrain subject expression (e.g. person/number, switch reference, tense-mood-aspect [TMA], morphological ambiguity, polarity, specificity) as well as language-external (social) variables (e.g. English proficiency, age, gender, LOR, AOA), and then analyzed using mixed-effects multivariate analysis in Rbrul (Johnson 2009). Results indicate an overall overt pronoun rate of 27% for Mexicans in Roswell, which is higher than what has been reported for monolingual Mexican Spanish. The multivariate analysis showed that several linguistic variables (e.g. person/number, switch reference, morphological ambiguity, polarity) and one social variable (age) played a significant role in pronoun variation. Moreover, differential effects were revealed when compared to monolingual Mexican Spanish for variables such as TMA and verb class, suggesting an influence of bilingualism. Such divergent linguistic configurations in Roswell Spanish suggest that we are seeing an emergent variety of Mexican Spanish in the U.S. with regard to subject pronoun expression.
