Lexical borrowing and deborrowing in Spanish in New York City : towards a synthesis of the social correlates of lexical use and diffusion in immigrant contexts / Rachel Varra.

"Lexical borrowing and deborrowing in Spanish in New York City provides a sociodemographic portrait of lexical borrowing in Spanish in New York City. The volume offers new and important insights into research on lexical borrowing. In particular, it presents empirical data obtained through quant...

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Main Author: Varra, Rachel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge studies in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The lexical borrowing database: classifying lexical contact phenomena
  • The corpus and analysis
  • An overview of lexical borrowing behavior in Spanish in New York City
  • Immigrant generations in focus
  • Innovation, reproduction and the dissemination of lexical borrowings in Spanish in New York City
  • Deborrowing: flagged lexical borrowings in Spanish in New York City
  • Synthesis and application of findings.