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Lipski, John M. – Hispania, 1989
An overview of contemporary Hispanic dialectology, focusing on phonological phenomena, syntax, classification schemes, and bilingual communities, demonstrates that dialectology has long ceased to be the collection of innumerable surface deviations. It is suggested that dialectology is a theoretical discipline searching for universal principles to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Hispanic American Culture, Language Classification

Morales, Amparo – Hispania, 1997
Discusses the Puerto Rican dialect and its peculiar placement of subject pronouns. Notes the linguistic variety in the dialect as well as its use of verbs connotating mental and communicative activity and constructions of relativity. These distinctions give rise to the functional hypothesis to account for the peculiarities of Spanish in the…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Dialect Studies, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar