Lexical Borrowing And Deborrowing In Spanish In New York Cit

Description: Lexical Borrowing and Deborrowing in Spanish in New York City provides a sociodemographic portrait of lexical borrowing in Spanish in New York City. The volume offers new and important insights into research on lexical borrowing. In particular, it presents empirical data obtained through quantitative analysis to answer the question of who is most likely to use English lexical borrowings while speaking Spanish, to address the impact that English has on Spanish as spoken in the city and to identify the social factors that contribute to language change. The book also provides an empirical, corpus-based-approach to distinguishing between borrowing and other contact phenomena, such as codeswitching, which will be of interest to scholars of language contact and bilingualism.

Contents: 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

Author Biography: 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.