Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact

Eva Núñez Méndez is professor of Spanish linguistics at Portland State University, where she has been part of the Dept. of World Languages and Literatures since 2002. Her research focuses primarily on linguistics (phonetics, syntax, and the history of the Spanish language) and on applied linguistics (language variation, text analysis, and translation). Her books include Diachronic applications of Hispanic linguistics (2016), Fundamentals of the history of the Spanish language (2012), Fundamentals of Spanish phonetics and phonology (2012, 2005), and Troilus and Cressida: a bilingual edition (2008).

• ContentsList of maps and figures XXList of tables XXAcknowledgments XXList of Abbreviations XXList of Contributors XXChapter Abstracts XXIntroduction XXSection I Border Speech CommunitiesChapter One 1Languages and borders: case studies from the U.S. SouthwestGlenn MartinezChapter Two XXLinguistic encounters in TexasManuel GutiérrezChapter Three XXBilingualism in California: the case of Los AngelesAna Sánchez MuñozChapter Four XXAttitudes and language behavior at the Brazilian-Uruguayan borderGöz Kaufmann Section II Outcomes and perceptions in situations of language and dialect contactChapter Five XXLanguages in contact: pidginization and creolization, Spanish in the Caribbean John LipskiChapter Six XXDominican-Haitian contact in Hispaniola: historical and sociolinguistic perspectivesLuis Ortiz LópezChapter Seven XXLanguages in contact: the case of ColombiaArmin Schwegler and Alejandro CorreaSection IIIcontact and alternation: social boundaries of language switchingChapter Eight XXHave monolingualism and monoculturalism been overcome in Mexico? Mariadelaluz Matus- MendozaChapter Nine XXLanguages in contact in Paraguay: cultural fusion in a unique sociolinguistic situation Haralambos SymeonidisChapter Ten XXLanguage contact and the indigenous languages of UruguayYliana RodríguezChapter Eleven XXLanguages in contact: grammaticalization and complexification in Northern Andeangerundianismo Kathleen GuerraChapter Twelve XXSpain's language policies and the discourse of contact linguistics: a diachronic approach Eva Núñez Méndez Index of subjects XX

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