Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading experts on the topic of language variation in Spanish to provide a panoramic view of research trends, develop probabilistic models of grammar, and investigate the impact of language contact on pronoun expression. The book consists of three sections. The first studies the distributional patterns and conditioning forces on subject pronoun expression in four monolingual varieties - Dominican, Colombian, Mexican, and Peninsular - and makes cross-dialectal comparisons. In the second section, experts explore Spanish in contact with English, Maya, Catalan, and Portuguese to determine the extent to which each language influences this syntactic variable. The final section examines the acquisition of variable subject pronoun expression among monolingual and bilingual children as well as adult second language learners.
Preface Ricardo Otheguy Introduction Ana M. Carvalho, Rafael Orozco, and Naomi Lapidus Shin Part I: Subject Pronoun Expression in Monolingual Varieties of Spanish 1. Variation of Overt and Null Subject Pronouns in the Spanish of Santo Domingo Gabriela G. Alfaraz 2. Pronominal Variation in Colombian Costeno Spanish Rafael Orozco 3. Subject Pronoun Expression in Oral Mexican Spanish Yolanda Lastra and Pedro Martin Butragueno 4. Subject Pronoun Usage in Formulaic Sequences: Evidence from Peninsular Spanish Pekka Posio Part II: Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with Other Languages 5. Foundations for the Study of Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with English: Assessing Intralinguistic (Dis)similarity via Intralinguistic Variability Rena Torres Cacoullos and Catherine E. Travis 6. Subject Pronoun Expression in Contact with Maya in Yucatan Spanish Jim Michnowicz 7. First Person Singular Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with Catalan Ana de Prada Perez 8. Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish in Contact with Portuguese Ana M. Carvalho and Ryan M. Bessett Part III: Subject Pronoun Expression in Contexts of Acquisition 9. The Emergence of Structured Variability in Morphosyntax: Childhood Acquisition of Spanish Subject Pronouns Naomi Lapidus Shin and Daniel Erker 10. Variable Subject Expression in Second Language Spanish: Uncovering the Developmental Sequence and Predictive Linguistic Factors Kimberly Geeslin, Bret Linford, and Stephen Fafulas 11. The Acquisition of Grammatical Subjects by Spanish--English Bilinguals Carmen Silva-Corvalan 12. Subject Expression in Bilingual School-age Children in the United States Silvina Montrul and Noelia Sanchez-Walker Contributors Index
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