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Gudmestad, Aarnes; Clay, Rebecca – Hispania, 2019
This study examines the variable occurrence of preposition duplication in contexts of coordination in Spanish (e.g., "Fui con mi madre y (con) mi padre"). We build on previous research on this variable morphosyntactic phenomenon (namely, prepositions in contexts of coordination) by expanding the type of data and the independent variables…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Form Classes (Languages), Spanish, Morphology (Languages)
Pascual y Cabo, Diego – Hispania, 2016
This study contributes to current trends of heritage speaker bilingualism research by examining the syntax of so-called Spanish dative-experiencer predicates ("gustar"-like verbs). Building on previous findings (e.g., Silva-Corvalán 1994; Toribio and Nye 2006), it is hypothesized that Spanish heritage speakers can project an optional…
Descriptors: Spanish, Spanish Speaking, Native Language, Syntax
Coles, Felice A. – Hispania, 2012
Isleno Spanish speakers maintain few contexts firmly in the subjunctive (for example, adverbial clauses with the conjunctions "para que" and "antes que" and nominal clauses with "querer"), with most other semantic or syntactic categories optionally licensing the subjunctive. This study will outline the obligatory and optional uses of present and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Spanish, Syntax
Sessarego, Cecilia – Hispania, 2016
The aim of a discourse-pragmatic approach to teaching the indicative/subjunctive contrast in Spanish is to engage students to move beyond grammar and semantics and enter the domain of language use in complete texts. Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research have mostly focused on the morphology, semantics and syntactic aspects of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gregory, Amy E.; Lunn, Patricia – Hispania, 2012
Linguistic research has shown that Spanish speakers mark clauses with the subjunctive when they consider the information value of those clauses to be low. Despite widespread agreement among linguists, however, the information-value approach to the subjunctive is largely ignored in textbooks and workbooks. This article explains how the…
Descriptors: Language Research, Textbooks, Linguistics, Spanish
Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Eva; Parafita-Couto, M. Carmen – Hispania, 2012
The aim of the present paper is to provide an overview of the so-called "Spanglish" phenomenon and its linguistic repertoires (code-switching utterances). We propose that it is necessary to link all different forms of analysis in order to verify hypotheses regarding the relationship among social, linguistic, and cognitive processes behind…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Interdisciplinary Approach, Anthropological Linguistics, Bilingualism
Collentine, Joseph – Hispania, 2010
I provide an update on the state of the art of the research--the last one being Collentine (2003)--on the acquisition of the function of the subjunctive and mood selection, as well as the research's implications for pedagogy. The article considers what we currently know about the role of universal grammar, psycholinguistic perspectives on the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods

Teschner, Richard V.; Munoz, Frank – Hispania, 1984
Provides representative statistics concerning the degree and rank-ordering of irregularity among verb tenses of Spanish. Indicates that the present is the most morphologically irregular of all Spanish tenses. The least irregular tense is the imperfect. (SL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Morphology (Languages), Semantics
La Forma "se" como sujeto indefinido en espanol (The Form "se" as the Indefinite Subject in Spanish)

Jordan, Pablo G. – Hispania, 1973
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Research

Wonder, John P. – Hispania, 1971
Descriptors: Adjectives, Case (Grammar), Diagrams, Grammar
Sintactica esiva del ingles y espanol (Syntactic Contrasts of the Main Verbs in Spanish and English)

Foster, David William – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar

Resnick, Melvyn C. – Hispania, 1984
Problems encountered in attempting to teach the Spanish verb system can be traced to misconceptions arising from the inadequate or misleading names of many of the tenses. The nature of descriptive terminology is the level at which the problem of nomenclature is treated in this study. (SL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning

Molina, Hubert – Hispania, 1970
Descriptors: English, Form Classes (Languages), Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory

Lujan, Marta – Hispania, 1975
Contradicts Pablo Jordan's theory that certain "se" constructions in Spanish are neither passive nor reflexive. It is claimed that syntactic evidence reveals two types of impersonal structures, the impersonal active and the passive reflexive. (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Linguistic Theory

Lozano, Anthony G. – Hispania, 1988
Contrasts the hypothetical conditional or "modo potencial" in Spanish with the subsequence conditional. Passages from "El habla de la ciudad de Mexico" and from works by Carballido and Borges are cited as examples. Other grammatical studies of the Spanish conditional are reviewed. (LMO)
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Semantics, Spanish, Syntax