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"Tendencias y Alternancias en la Expresion de Condicionalidad en el Espanol Hablado en Houston" (Tendencies and Variations in the Conditional Tense in the Spanish Spoken in Houston).
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Gutierrez, Manuel J. – Hispania, 1996
Examines the different spoken conditional verb forms used with reference to future time as manifested in the speech habits of those Mexican Americans living in Houston. The frequency with which certain variant forms appear indicates a definite trend in the evolution of linguistic change. Within this linguistic context, the imperfect subjunctive…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Language Variation, Mexican Americans, Oral Language
Expresiones de Modalidad en una Situacion de Contacto: "Deber (De)" Vs. "Tener Que" en el Espanol Hablado en Houston (Expressions of Modals in a Contact Situation in the Spanish Spoken in Houston).
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Fairclough, Marta – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 2000
Examined an aspect of modality in the Spanish spoken in the Houston, Texas community. Demonstrates that semantic-pragmatic variation and change are taking place and affecting the forms of "deber (de) and "tener que" in their deontic and epistemic modes. Interviewed Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in Spanish. Analyses show an…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Interviews, Language Variation, Mexican Americans