Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Part I. Heritage Spanish in the United States
5. 1. Subjects in early dual language development 3
6. 2. Interpreting mood distinctions in Spanish as a heritage language 23
7. 3. Anglicismos en el léxico disponible de los adolescentes hispanos de Chicago 41
8. Part II. Education and policy issues
9. 4. Teaching Spanish in the U.S. 61
10. 5. The politics of English and Spanish aquí y allá 81
11. 6. Language attitudes and the lexical de-Castilianization of Valencian 101
12. 7. Are Galicians bound to diglossia? 119
13. Part III. Pragmatics and contact
14. 8. Addressing peers in a Spanish-English bilingual classroom 135
15. 9. Style variation in Spanish as a heritage language 153
16. 10. “Baby I'm Sorry, te juro, I'm Sorry” 173
17. 11. Cross-linguistic influence of the Cuzco Quechua epistemic system on Andean Spanish 191
18. 12. La negación en la frontera domínico-haitiana 211
19. Part IV. Variation and contact
20. 13. On the development of contact varieties 237
21. 14. Linguistic and social predictors of copula use in Galician Spanish 253
22. 15. Apuntes preliminares sobre el contacto lingüístico y dialectal en el uso pronominal del español en Nueva York 275
23. 16. Is the past really the past in narrative discourse? 297
24. 17. The impact of linguistic constraints on the expression of futurity in the Spanish of New York Colombians 311
25. 18. Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation 329
26. 19. Está muy diferente a como era antes 345
27. Part V. Bozal Spanish
28. 20. Where and how does bozal Spanish survive? 359
29. 21. The appearance and use of bozal language in Cuban and Brazilian neo-African literature 377
30. Index 395