Spanish in Four Continents - Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism (Paperback, Revised)

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.

General

Imprint:	Georgetown University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1997
First published:	April 1997
Editors:	Carmen Silva-Corvalán
Contributors:	Carmen Silva-Corvalán • Sarah G. Thomason • Joni Kay Hurley • Alicia M. Ocampo • Francisco Ocampo • Carol A. Klee • Mercedes Niño-Murcia • Juan Carlos Godenzzi
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-87840-649-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
LSN:	0-87840-649-2
Barcode:	9780878406494

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