25.3460, Diss: Spanish; Sociolinguistics: Fernandez-Mallat: 'The Spanish of Andean Immigrants in Northern Chile...'

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Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:48:19
From: Victor Fernandez-Mallat [victorfm at uw.edu]
Subject: The Spanish of Andean Immigrants in Northern Chile: Dialectal Convergence and Divergence in a Dialect Contact Situation

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Institution: Université de Montréal 
Program: Linguistics and Literary Studies 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2014 

Author: Victor Fernandez-Mallat

Dissertation Title: The Spanish of Andean Immigrants in Northern Chile:
Dialectal Convergence and Divergence in a Dialect Contact
Situation 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)


Dissertation Director(s):
Juan Carlos Godenzzi

Dissertation Abstract:

Within the framework of the accommodation theory, the present study evaluates
the extent to which Spanish-speaking migrants from the Bolivian Andes to Chile
accommodate their speech to Chilean Spanish, using a comparative
sociolinguistics methodology. Four distinctive grammatical features of Andean
Spanish were selected for the analysis: the use of the double possessive
adjectives (e.g. He ido a su casa de mi marido), the use of adverbs of place
as adjuncts of the Spanish preposition en (e.g. Entonces he vivido en allá así
como diez años), the preference for the present perfect over the simple past
to express the perfective aspect (e.g. El año pasado he ido a visitar a mi
madre), and the exclusive use of standard verbal forms to express the second
person singular (e.g. Tú puedes estar comiendo tu hamburguesa). Results were
obtained from a statistical analysis of variation in the empirical data, which
were collected through interviews, and compared with a non-migrant Bolivian
control group. The data reveal that, while these migrants maintain a
practically unaltered use of both the double possessive adjectives and the
adverbs of place as adjuncts of the Spanish preposition en (this is understood
as “divergence”), they gradually substitute a preference for the present
perfect over the simple past to express the perfective aspect by a
predilection for the simple past over the present perfect (e.g. Esta mañana
fui a la playa), and they progressively adopt an alternation between standard
forms and vernacular ones (i.e. voseo) to express the second person singular
(e.g. Cuando tu flotái… y no te sumerges hacia adentro), as occurs in Chilean
Spanish (this is understood as “convergence”). In other words, the migrants
have incorporated new linguistic resources into their speech, while they have
simultaneously maintained others without any significant change. The dialect
contact situation caused by migrants from the Bolivian Andes to Chile,
therefore, has undeniable linguistic consequences, which bring out the dynamic
character of the language. Indeed, the fact that these migrants integrate new
linguistic resources into their speech while simultaneously maintaining others
without serious changes highlights that the processes of dialectal convergence
and divergence are not exclusive, but rather inclusive. That is, they can
occur simultaneously within the same linguistic community. In conclusion, the
fact that these migrants henceforth speak a dialect that is equivalent neither
to their original dialect nor to the host dialect supports the claim that they
speak a kind of new dialect.







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