NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Verbs of Speech and Cognition: Structural Patterns in New Mexican Spanish
Direct linkDirect link
Valdivia Ruiz, Victor Alfredo – ProQuest LLC, 2016
From a usage-based approach, this dissertation explores the relationship between structural variability and discourse subjectivity in a series of interviews from the "New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish Survey" (Bills and Vigil 2008). Focusing on the use of cognitive and speech verbs, the analysis will demonstrate that a) structural…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Interviews, Spanish
A Comparative Usage-Based Approach to the Reduction of the Spanish and Portuguese Preposition "Para"
Direct linkDirect link
Gradoville, Michael Stephen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the frequency effect of two-word collocations involving "para" "to," "for" (e.g. "fui para," "para que") on the reduction of "para" to "pa" (in Spanish) and "pra" (in Portuguese). Collocation frequency effects demonstrate that language speakers…
Descriptors: Spanish, Portuguese, Phrase Structure, Memory
Corazon a Corazon: Examining the Philanthropic Motivations, Priorities, and Relational Connectedness of Mexican American, Spanish American and Other Latino/Hispano University Alumni/Alumnae to a Hispanic Serving Institution
Direct linkDirect link
Acosta, Sylvia Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Public higher education institutions rely on state funding for a significant percentage of operational costs. In recent years, state contributions to higher education have been substantially reduced due to budget deficits at the state and federal levels. Such budget deficits have resulted in decreased funding for higher education. Universities…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Spanish Culture, Mexican Americans