Flannery, Mércia S.
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Narratives of racial discrimination can be organized through the utterance of an insult - overt discrimination - or through the interpretation that an action was motivated by prejudice - covert discrimination. One of the characteristics of these two types of narratives is the description and demonstration of the voices of those characters playing t...
Lipski, John M.
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Within the context of contemporary Hispanic linguistics, dialectology is often felt to be an anachronism, a notion grounded in the stereotype of the dialectologist as linguistic butterfly-collector. In fact this view is as unrealistic in the 21st century as the concept of a physician administering leeches and “philtres,” and stems from a failure to...
Eddington, David Hualde, José Ignacio
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
According to some Spanish grammarians, including the Royal Spanish Academy, nouns like agua ‘water’, asa ‘handle’, etc., are feminine and take a phonologicallyconditioned allomorph of the definite article (el) that is identical to the masculine article. Our data, both from an experiment and from electronic searches, show that there is considerable ...
Huelva, Enrique
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
The primary purpose of this article is to examine the cognitive underpinnings of grammaticalization processes that generate quantifier noun constructions in Spanish. This analysis aims to demonstrate the need to develop a cognitive model of grammaticalization based on the Theory of Blending. Grammaticalization is thus considered a specific case of ...
File-Muriel, Richard J.
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Moyna, María Irene Coll, Magdalena
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
This is a qualitative analysis of the historical dimensions of Spanish-English and Spanish-Portuguese contact in the Americas, based on 19th century documents from southern California and northern Uruguay. Language mixing is found in both areas, but whereas in California it is limited to the earliest periods and to informal registers, in Uruguay it...
Carlson, Matthew T.
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Bugel, Talia
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Davies, Mark
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Abstract Within the past decade several large, freely-available online corpora of Spanish and Portuguese have become available. With these new corpora, researchers of Spanish and Portuguese can now carry out the same type of corpus-based research that has been done for other languages (such as English) for years. This includes advanced research on ...
Dworkin, Steven N.
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
This paper offers some thoughts on the role of traditional dialect geography, a discipline that is rapidly being supplanted by sociolinguistics, in the study of Spanish and Romance historical linguistics. It rapidly surveys earlier contributions of dialect geography to Spanish and Romance historical linguistics, describes briefly several recent stu...
