Spanish in New York: Language Contact, Dialectal Leveling, and Structural Continuity

by Ricardo Otheguy and Ana Celia Zentella

Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it is found in Latin America, as well as the extent to which Spanish has evolved in New York City. Their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199737398
• ISBN13: 9780199737390
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"