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Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium edited by Timothy L. Face and Carol A. Klee ISBN 1-57473-408-3 library binding vi + 220 pages publication date: 2006 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Ana Maria Carvalho Nominal Number Marking in a Variety of Spanish in Contact with Portuguese 154-166 (complete pdf) This paper examines the linguistic and extra-linguistic factors that condition number marking within the elements of the noun phrase in the Spanish of Portuguese-Spanish bilinguals in Rivera, a community on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border. Based on differences found between Portuguese and Spanish in previous studies, this paper discusses whether border Spanish diverges from its monolingual counterparts by borrowing from Portuguese. Following the variationist framework of linguistic analysis, these results demonstrate that while border Spanish follows the internal tendencies of the Spanish language, which largely coincide with the internal tendencies of Portuguese, it also presents elements that are the result of language contact and are thus unique to this variety. |