Title Statements
- Full title :Current research in Puerto Rican linguistics / edited by Melvin González-Rivera.
Summary
"Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics is an edited collection of original contributions which explores the idiosyncratic grammatical properties of Puerto Rican Spanish. The book focuses on the structural aspects of linguistics, analysed with a variety of frameworks and methodological approaches, in order to presents the latest advances in the field of Puerto Rican and Caribbean linguistics. Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics brings together articles from researchers proposing new, challenging, and ground-breaking analyses on the nature of Spanish in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican Spanish in the United States" -- From the publisher.
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- Publication Date:2018.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 262 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781138292666, 1138292664, 9780367886547, 0367886545
- oclc:ocn975369203
- LC Classification:PC4854.P8
- Dewey Decimal:467/.97295
Table of Contents
Vowel raising and identity in the highlands of Puerto Rico / Julia Oliver Rajan -- Hiatus resolution in Puerto Rican Spanish and language typology / Yolanda Rivera Castillo -- Phonetics and phonology of /s/ in the Spanish of Puerto Rico: aspiration, elision with compensatory lengthening, and glottalization / Kenneth V. Luna -- The nature and position of subjects in Puerto Rican Spanish wh-questions: empirical evidence and theoretical implications / Juan Pablo Comínguez -- On Puerto Rican Spanish subjects / M. Emma Ticio -- A variationist account of Puerto Rican subject personal pronoun expression / Laurel Abreu -- Interaction among cognitive constraints: the case of the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish / Jeroen Claes -- Mitigation and indirectness in Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Mexican Spanish in an institutional discourse setting / Nydia Flores-Ferrán -- Respect and politeness in marketing and advertising documents in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico / Diane R. Uber -- Text messaging and bilingual discursive practices of college students in Puerto Rico / Edward G. Contreras and Rosita L. Rivera -- Language education policy issues in Puerto Rico / Alicia Pousada…
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