Subject pronoun expression in Spanish : a cross-dialectal perspective / Ana M. Carvalho, Rafael Orozco, and Naomi Lapidus Shin, Editors.

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Variation of overt and null subject pronouns in the Spanish of Santo Domingo / Gabriela G. Alfaraz -- Pronominal variation in Colombian Costeño Spanish / Rafael Orozco -- Subject pronoun expression in oral Mexican Spanish / Yolanda Lastra and Pedro Martín Burtagueño -- Subject pronoun usage in formulaic sequences: evidence from peninsular Spanish / Pekka Posio -- Foundations for the study of subject pronoun expression in Spanish in contact with English: assessing interlinguistic (dis)similarity via intralinguistic variability / Rena Torres Cacoullos and Catherine E. Travis -- Pronoun expression in contact with Maya in Yucatan Spanish / Jim Michnowicz -- First person singular subject pronoun expression in Spanish in contact with Catalan / Ana de Prada Pérez -- Subject pronoun expression in Spanish in contact with Portuguese / Ana M. Carvalho and Ryan M. Bessett -- The emergence of structured variability in morphosyntax: childhood acquisition of Spanish subject pronouns / Naomi Lapidus Shin and Daniel Erker -- Variable subject expression in second language Spanish: uncovering the developmental sequence and predictive linguistic factors / Kimberly Geeslin, Bret Linford, and Stephen Fafulas -- The acquisition of grammatical subjects by Spanish-English bilinguals / Carmen Silva-Corvalán -- Subject expression in bilingual school-age children in the United States / Silvina Montrul and Noelia Sánchez-Walker.

Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading experts on the topic of language variation in Spanish to provide a panoramic view of research trends, develop probabilistic models of grammar, and investigate the impact of language contact on pronoun expression. The book consists of three sections. The first studies the distributional patterns and conditioning forces on subject pronoun expression in four monolingual varieties-Dominican, Colombian, Mexican, an.

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