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Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium edited by David Eddington ISBN 1-57473-403-2 library binding v + 202 pages publication date: 2005 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract M. Irene Moyna, Wendy Decker, and M. Eugenia Martín Spanish/English Contact in Historical Perspective: 19th Century Documents of the Californias 169-179 (complete pdf) This is a study of Spanish in the San Diego area during the 19th century, before and after annexation of Alta California to the U.S. Evidence was obtained from seventy-two unpublished documents. The manuscripts were analyzed to establish their patterns of Spanish-English alternation and their phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical features. It is shown that Spanish among San Diego Californios retains vitality in public and private domains in the 19th century. The dialect is quite conservative and closely related to northern Mexican varieties. Moreover, it resists the influence of the English superstratum after annexation, with few innovations attributable to contact. |