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Lipski, John M. – Language Sciences, 1992
Attempts to reconcile the similarities and differences among Philippine Creole Spanish (PCS) dialects by suggesting that Zamboangueno was formed gradually in a downward fashion from received Spanish, aided by two components. The first is pidginization that resulted in the Spanish garrison at Zamboanga, and the second was the arrival of Manila Bay…
Descriptors: Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Foreign Countries
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Dinnsen, Daniel – Language Sciences, 1977
Argues that the mechanism of rule ordering, although sufficient to account for certain facts about linguistic change and variation, is not necessary. Different sequences of identical rules needed to account for dialectal facts in Catalan can be predicted by two independently motivated universal principles. (CHK)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
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Lozano, Anthony G.; Somero, Dale R. – Language Sciences, 1979
Proposes an analysis of Spanish indefinite "se" which takes into consideration regional variations. (AM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Variation, Phrase Structure