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Chapter 11. El futuro es perifrástico

Future tense expression in a bilingual U.S. Mexican community
  • Kendall Kyzar
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Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change
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Abstract

In this study of the expression of futurity in the Spanish of Mexicans residing in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, metropolitan area, I explore the distribution of the variants of futurity – the morphological future (MF), the periphrastic future (PF) and the simple present (SP) – and the constraints conditioning their occurrence. The results indicate that the PF registers the highest rate of occurrence with a frequency of 72.0% to the detriment of the MF. In comparison with other studies (cf. Gutiérrez 1995; Orozco 2007a), the PF is the most favored variant at the expense of the others. The type of verb, as reported in previous studies (cf. Orozco 2005, 2007a), is the linguistic constraint that most strongly influences the expression of futurity. Regarding social constraints, level of education conditions the use of the future. The lack of statistical significance for gender suggests that women and men have similar sociolinguistic behaviors. This opens the possibility of exploring other linguistic variables in other bilingual Mexican communities to determine whether the social trends that are found are limited to the expression of futurity or to the communities under study.

Abstract

In this study of the expression of futurity in the Spanish of Mexicans residing in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, metropolitan area, I explore the distribution of the variants of futurity – the morphological future (MF), the periphrastic future (PF) and the simple present (SP) – and the constraints conditioning their occurrence. The results indicate that the PF registers the highest rate of occurrence with a frequency of 72.0% to the detriment of the MF. In comparison with other studies (cf. Gutiérrez 1995; Orozco 2007a), the PF is the most favored variant at the expense of the others. The type of verb, as reported in previous studies (cf. Orozco 2005, 2007a), is the linguistic constraint that most strongly influences the expression of futurity. Regarding social constraints, level of education conditions the use of the future. The lack of statistical significance for gender suggests that women and men have similar sociolinguistic behaviors. This opens the possibility of exploring other linguistic variables in other bilingual Mexican communities to determine whether the social trends that are found are limited to the expression of futurity or to the communities under study.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Population migration and contact-induced language change
  5. Chapter 1. Spatial reconfigurations of Spanish in postmodernity 11
  6. Chapter 2. Female migration and its impact on language choice and use among Afro-Costa Rican women 35
  7. Chapter 3. Hard come, easy go 63
  8. Part II. Internal and external factors in pragmatic variation
  9. Chapter 4. Afro-Hispanic contact varieties at the syntax/pragmatics interface 85
  10. Chapter 5. Borrowed Spanish discourse markers in narrative 111
  11. Chapter 6. Hasta perder la última gota de mi sangre 127
  12. Chapter 7. Discourse markers in variation 153
  13. Part III. Morphosyntactic variation and change
  14. Chapter 8. Yo no le conocí a mi abuela 175
  15. Chapter 9. Attitudes toward morphosyntactic variation in the Spanish of Valencian speakers 199
  16. Chapter 10. Stable variation or change in progress? A sociolinguistic analysis of pa(ra) in the Spanish of Venezuela 223
  17. Part IV. Current issues in bilingual variation
  18. Chapter 11. El futuro es perifrástico 249
  19. Chapter 12. L2 Spanish in the U.S. and the question of motivation 279
  20. Chapter 13. Espero estén todos 299
  21. Index 335
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.340.12kyz

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Population migration and contact-induced language change
  5. Chapter 1. Spatial reconfigurations of Spanish in postmodernity 11
  6. Chapter 2. Female migration and its impact on language choice and use among Afro-Costa Rican women 35
  7. Chapter 3. Hard come, easy go 63
  8. Part II. Internal and external factors in pragmatic variation
  9. Chapter 4. Afro-Hispanic contact varieties at the syntax/pragmatics interface 85
  10. Chapter 5. Borrowed Spanish discourse markers in narrative 111
  11. Chapter 6. Hasta perder la última gota de mi sangre 127
  12. Chapter 7. Discourse markers in variation 153
  13. Part III. Morphosyntactic variation and change
  14. Chapter 8. Yo no le conocí a mi abuela 175
  15. Chapter 9. Attitudes toward morphosyntactic variation in the Spanish of Valencian speakers 199
  16. Chapter 10. Stable variation or change in progress? A sociolinguistic analysis of pa(ra) in the Spanish of Venezuela 223
  17. Part IV. Current issues in bilingual variation
  18. Chapter 11. El futuro es perifrástico 249
  19. Chapter 12. L2 Spanish in the U.S. and the question of motivation 279
  20. Chapter 13. Espero estén todos 299
  21. Index 335
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