Lexical borrowing and deborrowing in Spanish in New York City

Rachel Varra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and in Linguistics at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Lexical Borrowing Database: Classifying lexical contact phenomena Chapter 3: The corpus and analysis Chapter 4: An overview of lexical borrowing behavior in Spanish in New York City Chapter 5: Immigrant generations in focus Chapter 6: Innovation, reproduction and the dissemination of lexical borrowings in Spanish in New York City Chapter 7: Deborrowing: Flagged lexical borrowings in Spanish in New York City Chapter 8: Synthesis and application of findings Appendix A: Stratification of the Otheguy-Zentella Corpus of Spanish in NYC Appendix B: Excerpts from the Otheguy-Zentella Corpus by referring chapter Appendix C: Results of the homonymy test Appendix D: Criteria for lexical borrowing by part of speech category