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"Spanish in New York" is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it is found in Latin America, as well as the extent to which Spanish has evolved in New York City. Their study, which focuses on language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity, carefully distinguishes between the influence of English and the mutual influences of forms of Spanish with roots in different parts of Latin America. Taking variationist sociolinguistics as its guiding paradigm, the book compares the Spanish of New Yorkers born in Latin America with that of those born in New York City. Findings are grounded in a comparative analysis of 140 sociolinguistic interviews of speakers with origins in Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Quantitative analysis (correlations, anovas, variable hierarchies, constraint hierarchies) reveals the effect on the use of subject personal pronouns of the speaker's gender, immigrant generation, years spent in New York, and amount of exposure to English and to varieties of Spanish. In addition to these speaker factors, structural and communicative variables, including the person and tense of the verb and its referential status, have a significant impact on pronominal usage in New York City.

Spanish language --- Bilingualism --- Provincialisms --- Pronoun --- Dialects --- New York State --- Spanisch. --- Pronoun. --- Provincialisms. --- New York (State) --- Staat New York. --- Bilingualism. --- Dialects. --- Dialectology --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Spanish language - Provincialisms - New York (State) - New York --- Spanish language - Pronoun --- Spanish language - Dialects - New York (State) - New York --- Bilingualism - New York (State) - New York --- New York [state]

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Across the world, professional linguistic inquiry is in full bloom, largely as result of pioneering thinkers who helped rapidly modernize the study of human language in the last century. As the field continues to move forward, further solidifying its position as a conduit of insight into the human condition, it is essential to take stock of the theoretical primitives that have given linguistics its intellectual foundation. This volume does precisely that, inspecting the load-bearing components of the edifice upon which contemporary linguistics has been constructed. The volume’s authors – whose expertise spans the Generativist, Functionalist, and Variationist research traditions – remind us of the need to revisit the conceptual bedrock of the field, clarifying and assessing our primary theoretical moves, including those relating to such elemental components as the ‘linguistic sign’, ‘a language’, ‘structural relations’, ‘grammatical category’, ‘acquisition’, ‘bilingual’, ‘competence’, and ‘sociolinguistic variable’.

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Language maintenance --- Spanish language --- Sociolinguistics. --- Languages in contact --- Bilingualism --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Language loyalty --- Maintenance of language --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Maintenance --- -Language maintenance --- -Languages in contact --- -Sociolinguistics --- -Language and languages --- Areal linguistics --- Multilingualism --- -Social aspects --- -Castilian language --- -Maintenance --- Language maintenance - United States --- Spanish language - Social aspects - United States --- Languages in contact - United States --- Bilingualism - United States

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