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Rana Risso, Rocio – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation presents a variationist sociolinguistic study of the variable placement of subject personal pronouns before or after verbs in Spanish in New York City (e.g. "ella canta"; "canta ella", both "she sings"). It pursues a line of inquiry that partially replicates recent work by Otheguy & Zentella…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Barrera-Tobon, Carolina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is a variationist sociolinguistic analysis of the variable word order and prosody of copular constructions ("Nicolas es feliz" versus "'Feliz' es Nicolas," "Es Nicolas 'feliz,'" "Es 'feliz' Nicolas," "Nicolas is 'happy'") in the Spanish of first- and second-generation…
Descriptors: Word Order, Intonation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Bookhamer, Kevin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This morphosyntactic dissertation study compares the use of MOOD (indicative & subjunctive) in first- and second-generation Spanish speakers in New York City. The data for this study are from a transcription of naturalistic Spanish conversations with New Yorkers of different generations, representing the six primary Spanish-speaking groups in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish, Syntax, Morphology (Languages)