/s/ in Central American Spanish

Hispania ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Lipski
Keyword(s):  
Central American ◽  
American Spanish

El tú como un “mask”: Voseo and Salvadoran and Honduran Identity in the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Woods ◽  
Susana V. Rivera-Mills
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Central American ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
American Spanish ◽  
Linguistic Attitudes

AbstractThis sociolinguistic study explores linguistic attitudes of Salvadorans and Hondurans living in the United States towards the use of voseo, a distinguishing feature of Central American Spanish. Using sociolinguistic interviews and ethnographic observations, the Central American experience in Oregon and Washington is examined regarding linguistic attitudes toward voseo and tuteo and how these influence Salvadoran and Honduran identity in U.S. communities that are primarily Mexican-American. Initial findings point to participants developing ethnolinguistic masks and an expanded use of tú as a strategic approach to integration into the established Mexican-American community, while at the same time maintaining a sense of Central American identity.

New insights into an old form: A variationist analysis of the pleonastic possessive in Guatemalan Spanish

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Elsig
Keyword(s):  
Interview Data ◽  
Central American ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Structural Position ◽  
Old Spanish ◽  
Indefinite Article ◽  
American Spanish ◽  
Context Specific

AbstractRomance languages differ as regards the adjectival or article-like status of prenominal possessives. While in Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, and Old Spanish, they pattern like adjectives and co-occur with articles, and in French and Modern Spanish, they compete with the latter for the same structural position. The different distribution of possessives is claimed to reflect distinct stages on a grammaticalization cline (Alexiadou, 2004). This paper focuses on a variety of Central American Spanish where the Old Spanish co-occurrence of an (indefinite) article and a possessive in the prenominal domain has been maintained (as in una mi amiga ‘a my friend’). Based on a variationist study of interview data extracted from the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish for Spain and America (PRESEEA) Guatemala corpus, I will argue that it is indeed the indefinite article that shows signs of retarded grammaticalization. Yet, rather than extending to the variety as a whole, this retardation is context-specific.

scholarly journals Indefinite article + possessive + noun in Spanish: A case of refunctionalization?

Languages ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Enrique Pato
Keyword(s):  
Central American ◽  
Indefinite Article ◽  
Opaque Material ◽  
Grammatical Construction ◽  
American Spanish ◽  
Grammatical Change

The phenomenon under discussion is an example of a grammatical change that can be explained by refunctionalization, and as such, can be understood as the acquisition of a new meaning by an ‘endangered’ grammatical construction, which is reassigned to express another value. Refunctionalization involves the development of a new function (in this case a syntactic-semantic one). When an item loses its function, or is marginal within a system, it can be lost (as happens with the construction under study in Standard Spanish), it can be ‘saved’ as a marginal element (as in some areas of American Spanish varieties) or it can be reused for other purposes (as in the Central American Spanish varieties). The latter case presents new discursive values. Hence, this construction should be understood as an example of reusing grammatical functionally opaque material for new purposes.

The Suffix -oso in Central-American Spanish

Hispania ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Gary Eugene A. Scavnicky
Keyword(s):  
Central American ◽  
American Spanish

scholarly journals El operador no en el español de Centroamérica: análisis tipológico

LETRAS ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 147-162
Author(s):  
Gisselle Herrera Morera
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central American ◽  
Formal Description ◽  
Hispanic Linguistics ◽  
American Spanish

El estudio analiza el operador no en el español de Centroamérica desde una perspectiva tipológica y representa un aporte a los estudios de descripción formal del español en la región. La muestra proviene de la base de datos del Programa de Lingüística Hispánica (PROLHISPA) de la Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica. This study analyzes the operator no in Central American Spanish from a typological perspective and represents a contribution to research on the formal description of Spanish in the region. The sample is taken from the database of the Hispanic Linguistics Program (PROLHISPA), of the Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica.

scholarly journals El infinitivo personal de las oraciones adverbiales en el español de Centroamérica (The Personal Infinitive in Adverbial Clauses in Central American Spanish)

LETRAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (58) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Gisselle Herrera Morera
Keyword(s):  
Central American ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Adverbial Clauses ◽  
American Spanish

En este trabajo se describen y analizan desde una perspectiva tipológico-funcional las estructuras de infinitivo personal en las oraciones adverbiales introducidas por una preposición + sujeto pronominal + infinitivo [PSpI] en el español de Centroamérica. Se concluye que no hay una tendencia al empleo de tal estructura en esta variedad, aunque se manifiesta como un fenómeno incipiente que podría acentuarse. This paper describes and analyzes, from a typological-functional perspective, personal infinitive structures in adverbial clauses introduced by a preposition + pronoun subject + infinitive [PSpI] in Central American Spanish to show that although there is not a trend to use this structure in this variety, it is an emerging phenomenon that could increase. 

Occurrence and biogeographic significance of Heliaster (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the Pliocene of southwest Florida

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (01) ◽  
pp. 126-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas S. Jones ◽  
Roger W. Portell
Keyword(s):  
Central American ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Marine Fauna ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Southwest Florida ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Geologic Record ◽  
Central American Isthmus

Whole body asteroid fossils are rare in the geologic record and previously unreported from the Cenozoic of Florida. However, specimens of the extant species,Heliaster microbrachiusXantus, were recently discovered in upper Pliocene deposits. This marks the first reported fossil occurrence of the monogeneric Heliasteridae, a group today confined to the eastern Pacific. This discovery provides further non-molluscan evidence of the close similarities between the Neogene marine fauna of Florida and the modern fauna of the eastern Pacific. The extinction of the heliasters in the western Atlantic is consistent with the pattern of many other marine groups in the region which suffered impoverishment following uplift of the Central American isthmus.

A cross-cultural analysis of the Test of Memory Malingering among Latin American Spanish-speaking adults.

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 422-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Nijdam-Jones ◽  
Diego Rivera ◽  
Barry Rosenfeld ◽  
Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Test Of Memory Malingering ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Latin American Spanish ◽  
American Spanish ◽  
Cross Cultural Analysis

Protecting U.S.-citizen children whose Central American parents have temporary protected status.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisseth Rojas-Flores ◽  
Josephine Hwang Koo ◽  
Jennifer Medina Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Central American
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