Variation And Change In Spanish

Author : Ralph Penny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604505
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Variation and Change in Spanish written by Ralph Penny and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies recent theoretical insights to trace the development of Castilian and Latin American Spanish from the Middle Ages onwards, through processes of repeated dialect mixing both within the Iberian Peninsula and in the New World. The author contends that it was this frequent mixing which caused Castilian to evolve more rapidly than other varieties of Hispano-Romance, and which rendered Spanish particularly subject to levelling of its linguistic irregularities and to simplification of its structures. These two processes continued as the language extended into and across the Americas. These processes are viewed in the context of the Hispano-Romance dialect continuum, which includes Galician, Portuguese and Catalan, as well as New World varieties. The book emphasises the subtlety and seamlessness of language variation, both geographical and social, and the impossibility of defining strict boundaries between varieties. Its conclusions will be relevant both to Hispanists and to historical sociolinguists more generally.

Author : Ian E. Mackenzie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030105679
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Structure, Variation and Change written by Ian E. Mackenzie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking. Its analysis of both successful and failed changes demonstrates the degree of unpredictability caused by the interaction of competing factors and will shed fresh light on the assumed unidirectionality of linguistic change. Importantly, it reveals that Old Spanish and modern Spanish are more similar to one another than is usually supposed and demonstrates that many of the differences between the two varieties are quantitative rather than qualitative. This theoretically sophisticated examination of historical corpora will provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Old and modern Spanish, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and syntax.

Author : Jeremy King
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264554
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change written by Jeremy King and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus. It deals with both native and non-native varieties of the language, and includes both synchronic and diachronic studies. The volume addresses, and challenges, current theoretical assumptions on the nature of language variation and contact-induced change through empirically-based linguistic research. The sustained contact between Spanish and other languages in different parts of the world has given rise to a wide number of changes in the language, which are driven by a concomitance of different linguistic and social processes. This collection of articles provides new insight into such phenomena across the Spanish-speaking world.

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ISBN 13 : 9781138629301
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book SPANISH LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE. written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. K. Chambers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756500
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Language Variation and Change written by J. K. Chambers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, reflects the vitality and growth of the discipline in its multifaceted pursuits. It is a convenient, hand-held repository of the essential knowledge about the study of language variation and change. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field. Reflects the vitality and growth of the discipline. Discusses the ideas that drive the field and is illustrated with empirical studies. Includes explanatory introductions which set out the boundaries of the field and place each of the chapters into perspective.

Author : Thomas Edward Murray
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027248966
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Variation and Change in the American Midland written by Thomas Edward Murray and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigations of the Midlands dialect. The authors demonstrate that the large central part of the United States known colloquially as the Heartland, geo-culturally as the Midwest, and linguistically as the Midland is a very real dialect area, one with regional cohesiveness, social complexity, and psycho-emotional impact. The individual essays problematize historical origins, track linguistic markers of social identity over time and across social spaces, frame dialect issues within the linguistic marketplace, account for extra-linguistic influences on changing patterns of linguistic behaviors, and describe maintenance strategies of non-English languages. This book is an important move forward in the understanding of American English. Sociolinguists, dialectologists, applied linguists, and all those involved in the statistical and qualitative study of language variation will find this volume relevant, timely, and insightful.

Author : Scott F. Kiesling
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074863763X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Variation and Change written by Scott F. Kiesling and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around three constraints on variation: linguistic structure, social structure and identity, and social and linguistic perception. By considering both structure and meaning, Scott F. Kiesling examines the most important issues surrounding variation theory, including canonical studies and terms as well as challenges to them.

Author : Jeremy King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Variation and Contact-induced Change written by Jeremy King and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manuel Díaz-Campos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042957584X
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish written by Manuel Díaz-Campos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish provides an up-to-date overview of the latest research examining sociolinguistic approaches to analyzing variation in Spanish. Divided into three sections, the book includes the most current research conducted in Spanish variationist sociolinguistics. This comprehensive volume covers phonological, morphosyntactic, social, and lexical variation in Spanish. Each section is further divided into subsections focusing on specific areas of language variation, highlighting the most salient and current developments in each subfield of Hispanic sociolinguistics. As such, this Handbook delves further into the details of topics relating to variation and change in Spanish than previous publications, with a focus on the symbolic sociolinguistic value of specific phenomena in the field. Encouraging readers to think critically about language variation, this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers seeking to explore lesser-known areas of Hispanic sociolinguistics. The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish will be a welcome addition to specialists and students in the fields of linguistics, Hispanic linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology.

Author : Isabelle Léglise
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027234922
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings written by Isabelle Léglise and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is at the cross-roads between two research traditions dealing with language change: contact linguistics and language variation and change. It starts out from the notion that linguistic variation is still a little researched area in most contact-induced language change studies. Intending to fill this gap, it offers a rich panorama of case studies and approaches dealing with linguistic variation in contact settings. It concentrates both on monolingual data, tracing variation and contact beneath surface homogeneity, and on bilingual data such as code-switching and other forms of variation, to trace their underlying regularities. It investigates the relationship between variation and change in language contact settings. The book will be relevant for students and researchers in contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, language variation and change, sociology of language, descriptive linguistics and linguistic typology.