Spanish in the United States : linguistic contact and diversity / / edited by Ana Roca and John M. Lipski.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Roca, Ana.; Lipski, John M.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in anthropological linguistics ; 6
• Physical Description: viii, 212 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Linguistic heterogeneity, civil strife, and per capita gross national product in inter-polity perspective / Joshua A. Fishman -- A reconsideration of the notion of loan translation in the analysis of U.S. Spanish / Ricardo Otheguy -- The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the US-Mexico border / Margarita Hidalgo -- Spanish clitics in a contact situation / Manuel J. Gutierrez and Carmen Silva-Corvalan -- Language choice in Hispanic-background junior high school students in Miami / Barbara Zurer Pearson and Arlene McGee -- Literacy stories / Rene Cisneros and Betty Leone -- Language maintenance institutions of the Isleno dialect of Spanish / Felice Anne Coles -- Convergent conceptualizations as predictors of degree of contact in U.S. Spanish / Ricardo Otheguy and Ofelia Garcia -- Creoloid phenomena in the Spanish of transitional bilinguals / John M. Lipski -- Diversification and Pan-Latinity / Frances R. Aparicio -- Oral proficiency testing and the bilingual speaker / David Burnwell.