Language contact and change
Subtitle: Spanish in Los Angeles
By: Carmen Silva-Corvalán.
Series: Oxford studies in language contact
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Spanish language -- Dialects -- California -- Los Angeles County.; Spanish language -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles County.; Languages in contact -- California -- Los Angeles County.; Bilingualism -- California -- Los Angeles County.
Description: Languages in a situation of contact, whether they are receding or being maintained by their speakers, are characterized by constant and rapid change. Thus they provide a testing ground for hypotheses about processes of linguistic change.

In this original and significant study of an intergenerational sample of Spanish-English bilinguals in Los Angeles County, Carmen Silva-Corvalan explores in depth the linguistic, cognitive, and social processes underlying language maintenance, as well as changes characteristic of language shift and loss, bringing together analytical techniques employed in sociolinguistics, functional syntax, and discourse analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-249) and index.