Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact

Eva Núñez Méndez is professor of Spanish linguistics at Portland State University, where she has been part of the Dept. of World Languages and Literatures since 2002. Her research focuses primarily on linguistics (phonetics, syntax, and the history of the Spanish language) and on applied linguistics (language variation, text analysis, and translation). Her books include Diachronic applications of Hispanic linguistics (2016), Fundamentals of the history of the Spanish language (2012), Fundamentals of Spanish phonetics and phonology (2012, 2005), and Troilus and Cressida: a bilingual edition (2008).

Contents

List of maps and figures XX



List of tables XX



Acknowledgments XX



List of Abbreviations XX



List of Contributors XX



Chapter Abstracts XX



Introduction XX



Section I



Border Speech Communities



Chapter One 1



Languages and borders: case studies from the U.S. Southwest



Glenn Martinez



Chapter Two XX



Linguistic encounters in Texas



Manuel Gutiérrez



Chapter Three XX



Bilingualism in California: the case of Los Angeles



Ana Sánchez Muñoz



Chapter Four XX



Attitudes and language behavior at the Brazilian-Uruguayan



border



Göz Kaufmann



Section II



Outcomes and perceptions in situations



of language and dialect contact



Chapter Five XX



Languages in contact: pidginization and creolization, Spanish in the Caribbean



John Lipski



Chapter Six XX



Dominican-Haitian contact in Hispaniola: historical and sociolinguistic



perspectives



Luis Ortiz López



Chapter Seven XX



Languages in contact: the case of Colombia



Armin Schwegler and Alejandro Correa



Section III



contact and alternation:



social boundaries of language switching



Chapter Eight XX



Have monolingualism and monoculturalism been overcome in Mexico?



Mariadelaluz Matus- Mendoza



Chapter Nine XX



Languages in contact in Paraguay: cultural fusion in a unique sociolinguistic situation



Haralambos Symeonidis



Chapter Ten XX



Language contact and the indigenous languages of Uruguay



Yliana Rodríguez



Chapter Eleven XX



Languages in contact: grammaticalization and complexification in Northern Andean

gerundianismo



Kathleen Guerra



Chapter Twelve XX



Spain's language policies and the discourse of contact linguistics: a diachronic approach



Eva Núñez Méndez



Index of subjects XX