The influence of English on contact Spanish: Preverbal bare subjects.
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Title
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The influence of English on contact Spanish: Preverbal bare subjects.
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Identifier
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AAI8914763
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identifier
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8914763
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Creator
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Jagendorf, Susan.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Ricardo Otheguy
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Date
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1988
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Language, Linguistics
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Abstract
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Students of language contact have pointed out that grammatical borrowing is much less frequent than lexical borrowing. Although studies by Klein and Silva-Corvalan have documented a certain amount of influence on the grammar of Spanish from English, there are few or no studies that document the outright borrowing of a grammatical morpheme from English into Spanish.;The present study shows that in order to understand sentences with preverbal bare subjects in Spanish, we need to postulate the presence of a O. While this O morpheme is not part of the article system of traditional Spanish (the Spanish of Spain and Latin America), it is indeed part of the article system of English. We propose that as a result of contact with English, Spanish in the United States (henceforth, contract Spanish), though not traditional Spanish, has borrowed the O morpheme from English into its own article system. And as a result of the borrowing of this grammatical morpheme together with the meaning that it carries, new messages are also being conveyed in contact Spanish. To support our argument, we will present evidence from Spanish language newspapers published in the United States and abroad as well as evidence from experimental situations that we have devised.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
