Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

Spanish in Four Continents: Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism

by Carmen Silva-Corvalán , Carmen Silva-Corvalán , Sarah G. Thomason
Save 17% Save 17%
Current price ₹6,131.00
Original price ₹7,358.00
Original price ₹7,358.00
Original price ₹7,358.00
(-17%)
₹6,131.00
Current price ₹6,131.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 18-21 Days

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780878406494
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: GBP 48.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised
  • Item Weight: 508 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Spanish

This collection is the first to examine the effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on the development of dialectal varieties of Spanish in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Nineteen essays investigate a variety of complex situations of contact between Spanish and typologically different languages, including Basque, Bantu languages, English, and Quechua. The overall picture that evolves clearly indicates that although influence from the contact languages may lead to different dialects, the core grammar of Spanish remains intact.

Silva-Corval�aacute;n's volume makes an important contribution both to sociolinguistics in general, and to Spanish linguistics in particular. The contributors address theoretical and empirical issues that advance our knowledge of what is a possible linguistic change, how languages change, and how changes spread in society in situations of intensive bilingualism and language contact, a situation that appears to be the norm rather than the exception in the world.

Carmen Silva-Corvalán is a professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Sociolingüística: Teoría y análisis (Alhambra, 1989) and Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Trusted for over 49 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us