Perspectives in the Study of Spanish Language VariationPapers in Honor of Carmen Silva-Corvalán

Resumen

This volume contains twenty-one peer-reviewed studies on Spanish language variation compiled as a tribute to Carmen Silva-Corvalán on the occasion of her retirement at the University of Southern California. The material covers some of the research domains to which she has so fruitfully contributed: morphosyntactic variation and change, Spanish in the United States, language acquisition, and language in society. The papers provide fresh insights into some of the most widely studied issues in Spanish variationist sociolinguistics in both monolingual and bilingual speech: the overt versus null pronominal subject variable, the variable expression of subjects, loss of case marking in relative clauses, use of verbal clitics, word order, differential object marking, and uses of different verb forms (cantaré vs. voy a cantar, cantara vs. cantase and había cantado), among others. The book will be of value to students, educators, and researchers interested in linguistic variation, language acquisition, bilingualism and Spanish linguistics