Abstract:
THE ANALYSIS OF COPULA choice in adjectival constructions has been the center of
many investigations in Spanish, and they have focused on theoretical accounts
(Clements 1988, 2006), sociolinguistic perspectives (e.g., Alfaraz 2012; Brown
and Cortés-Torres 2012), first-language (e.g., Requena, Román-Hernández, and
Miller, 2015), and second-language acquisitional contexts (e.g., Geeslin 2003), and
language-contact situations in the US (Silva-Corvalán 1986) and Spanish in contact
with other languages (Geeslin and Guijarro-Fuentes 2008). This work has contributed
to our understanding of the factors involved in predicting copula choice as well
as in describing the patterns of variation and change across varieties of Spanish.
Description:
Copyright 2017 by Georgetown University Press. Manuel Dfaz-Campos, Iraida Galarza, and Gibran Delgado-Dfaz, "8. The Sociolinguistic Profile of Ser and Estar in Cuban Spanish". From Cuban Spanish Dialectology: Variation, Comact, and Change, Alejandro Cuza, Editor, pp. 135-162. Reprinted with permission. www.press.georgctown.edu." Posted with permission of Georgetown University Press.
