bilingualism
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colonial legacies
colonialism
dialectology
discrimination
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language change
language contact
language policy
Romance linguistics
Spanish
Spanish dialectology
Spanish dialects
Spanish grammar
Spanish in America
Spanish linguistics
Spanish sociolinguistics
Spanish syntax
Spanish typology
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- ISBN 9780878406494
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 1997
- Publisher: Georgetown University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This collection is the first to examine 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 Spanish and typologically different languages, including Basque, Bantu languages, English, and Quechua. The overall picture that evolves clearly indicates that although influence from the contact languages may lead to different dialects, the core grammar of Spanish remains intact. Silva-Corvalan's volume makes an important contribution both to sociolinguistics in general, and to Spanish linguistics in particular. The contributors address theoretical and empirical issues that advance our knowledge of what is a possible linguistic change, how languages change, and how changes spread in society in situations of intensive bilingualism and language contact, a situation that appears to be the norm rather than the exception in the world.
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).
