Southwest Journal of Linguistics articles from June 2003

Southwest Journal of Linguistics archives from June 2003

Speaking Spanish in Los Angeles and San Antonio: who, when, where, why.(Presidential Address)
June 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. This paper discusses ways in which Los Angeles, California, and San Antonio, Texas, differ with regard to Spanish language use by means of anecdotes and insights from the author's point of view as a community insider in both. Relevant...

Making sense of language differences.(2002 Keynote Address)
June 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. Close study of collective/plural morphemes and wh-interrogatives in Chinese and English indicates that language differences in these areas are not random. Interacting with general principles of Universal Grammar, basic morphological...

The stop-spirant alternation in Spanish: converging evidence for a fortition account.
June 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. This paper evaluates the VOICED STOP-SPIRANT alternation in Spanish based on acoustic evidence, independent patterns in the language, production patterns from L1 and L2 acquisition, and theoretical assumptions about the nature of...

The status of word-final [e] in Spanish.
June 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. Traditionally the final vowel of Spanish forms like parte 'part', nube 'cloud', etc. has been analyzed as the result of WORD-FINAL EPENTHESIS (Harris 1986a,b, 1991, 1999). The main argument in favor of this proposal is that -e, the...

Verb-noun compounds in Chinese.
June 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. A recent development in Chinese renders many occurrences of the construction [Adjunct PP + Verb + N[P.sub.2]] into [Verb + N2 + N[P.sub.1]]. A crucial difference between the two constructions is that in the former the verb and its...

El espanol en el Sur de Estados Unidos: Estudios, encuestas, textos.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By MANUEL ALVAR. Alcala de Henares: Universidad de Alcala--La Goleta Ediciones, 2000. Pp. 504 The great Ramon Menendez Pidal liked to characterize himself as having heard more romances (traditional narrative ballads) than any other person....

Lexico historico del espanol de Mexico: Regimen, clases funcionales, usos sintacticos, frecuencias y variacion grafica.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By Concepcion Company and Chantal Melis. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2002. Pp. cxiii, 952. Lexico historico del espanol de Mexico: Regimen, clases funcionales, usos sintacticos, frecuencias y variacion grafica (LH) is...

I am my language: Discourses of women and children in the borderlands.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By NORMA GONZALEZ. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 215. Hardback $35.00. In I am My Language, Norma Gonzalez uses language as a vehicle for understanding the complexities of life in the borderlands....

The ecology of language evolution.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By Salikoko S. Mufwene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 255. $59.95 (hardback), $21.95 (paperback). The turn of the 21st century witnessed the belated crumbling of once-powerful nineteenth century metaphors. These...