Southwest Journal of Linguistics articles from June 2002

Southwest Journal of Linguistics archives from June 2002

On the occasion of our 30th: a retrospection. (Presidential Address).
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. In 1972, under the leadership of Winfred Lehmann, linguists in the southwestern United States founded The Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) to address a number of regional needs. Among these were the need to improve...

Educational malpractice and the sociopolitical concerns of language-minority students. (2001 Keynote Address).
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. This paper grows out of linguistic controversies surrounding educational proposals for English Language Learners and African American students that proved to be highly controversial and racially divisive. Within the past five years,...

Hierarchical pronouns in discourse: third-person pronouns in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec narratives. (2001 Keynote Address).
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. Languages of the Zapotec language family of southern Mexico have extremely complex third-person pronoun systems whose use in extended discourse may be sensitive to speaker attitude and point of view as well as to social hierarchy. In...

The purpose-modification continuum: purposive da-relative clauses in Macedonian.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. Da-relatives in Macedonian (functionally similar to English to-relatives) are semantic and syntactic hybrids of purpose and relative clauses. They are used in informal speech to express a complex blend of purposive and modification...

The continuing decline of Isleno Spanish in Louisiana.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. Isleno Spanish, the dialect of Canary Island descendants living in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, is in attrition after more than 100 years of isolation. The dialect is of interest in the study of the processes of language death...

Colonial lag, social change, and ethnolinguistic identity in South Texas, 1791-1910.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. South Texas Spanish is one of the most archaic varieties spoken in the United States Southwest; however, the socio-historic motivation of this archaic flavor is elusive. While social isolation is an important factor in the maintenance...

Coronal and velar softening in Spanish: theoretical, historical and empirical evidence of lexicalization.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. Voicing assimilation, phonological deletion, lateral and nasal depalatalization, diphthongization and coronal and velar softening are still largely assumed to be productive morphophonological alternations in Spanish, the result of the...

`Ni a pocha va a llegar': minority language loss and dual language schooling in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. This article considers effects of dual language schooling on the vitality of Spanish in a Mexican-American barrio in Tucson, Arizona, where diminishing Spanish language resources are concentrated in bilingual elders and recent...

Introduccion a la linguistica hispanica.
June 1, 2002... By Jose Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea and Anna Maria Escobar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 372. Hardback $45.00. Any professor, instructor, or teaching assistant who has as part of his or her responsibilities the...