1st Edition

Lexical borrowing and deborrowing in Spanish in New York City Towards a synthesis of the social correlates of lexical use and diffusion in immigrant contexts

By Rachel Varra Copyright 2018
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

Lexical Borrowing and Deborrowing in Spanish in New York City provides a sociodemographic portrait of lexical borrowing in Spanish in New York City. The volume offers new and important insights into research on lexical borrowing. In particular, it presents empirical data obtained through quantitative analysis to answer the question of who is most likely to use English lexical borrowings... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction 



Chapter 2: The Lexical Borrowing Database: Classifying lexical contact phenomena 



Chapter 3: The corpus and analysis 



Chapter 4: An overview of lexical borrowing behavior in Spanish in New York City 



Chapter 5: Immigrant generations in focus 



Chapter 6: Innovation, reproduction and the dissemination of lexical borrowings in Spanish in New York City 



Chapter 7: Deborrowing: Flagged lexical borrowings in Spanish in New York City 



Chapter 8: Synthesis and application of findings 



Appendix A: Stratification of the Otheguy-Zentella Corpus of Spanish in NYC 



Appendix B: Excerpts from the Otheguy-Zentella Corpus by referring chapter 



Appendix C: Results of the homonymy test 



Appendix D: Criteria for lexical borrowing by part of speech category

Biography



Rachel Varra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and in Linguistics at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.