The Genesis of Traditional New Mexican Spanish: The Emergence of a Unique Dialect in the Americas
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Israel Sanz
Abstract
The origin of New World Spanish (NWS) is often identified as an original leveled dialect that arose during the earliest moments of Spanish arrival and then spread throughout the Americas. One common denominator in the available accounts of dialect contact and koinéization in NWS is the fact that such studies usually attempt to encompass its evolution as a single process. Perhaps as a consequence of such analytical approaches, little or no reference is commonly made to the possibility that some areas may have followed highly idiosyncratic sociohistorical paths, causing explanatory difficulties for the single leveled dialect approach. In this article we offer an analysis of the genesis of Traditional New Mexican Spanish that suggests the possibility of a variety of NWS that arose independently of others.
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Front Matter
- Contents
- From the Editor’s Desk
- Research Articles
- The Phonology-Morphology Interface in Judeo-Spanish Diminutive Formation: A Lexical Ordering and Subcategorization Approach
- Sobre as origens da vogal radical /i/ em sigo~siga no verbo galego-português: Um fenómeno de contacto linguístico?
- De elemento léxico a marcador modal de mayor veracidad: Un cambio de verdad
- “Como no me trago el humo...:” A Corpus-Based Approach to Aspectual Se
- The Genesis of Traditional New Mexican Spanish: The Emergence of a Unique Dialect in the Americas
- Book Reviews
- Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students (2nd ed.). Monica Macaulay. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 2011.
- Transcription of Intonation of the Spanish Language
- State of Discipline. Topic: Variation in Second Language Acquisition
- Variation in L2 Spanish: The State of the Discipline
- Viewpoints. Topic: Technology in Linguistic
- The Contribution of Brain Imaging to the Study of Human Language
- Articulatory Phonology and the Task Dynamics Model
- Eyetracking Methodology: A User's Guide for Linguistic Research
- Technology in Phonetic Science: Setting Up a Basic Phonetics Laboratory
- Dissertation Notices
- Focalizing ser (‘to be’) in Colombian Spanish
