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Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics edited by Jonathan Holmquist, Augusto Lorenzino, and Lotfi Sayahi ISBN 978-1-57473-418-8 library binding viii+192 pages publication date: 2007 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Kimberly Geeslin and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Exploring Copula Choice in Spanish: A Look at Gender 92-102 (complete pdf) This paper evaluates the roles of gender regarding copula choice in Spanish in a contact situation with Basque, Catalan, Galician, and Valencian. The selection of either ser or estar in Spanish has to do with the semantic and pragmatic constraints of several linguistic discourse factors (Geeslin 2005). Data were gathered with the help of a sociolinguistic questionnaire and a Contextualized Preference task. According to our findings, there were differences amidst the bilingual populations in their rates of selection of estar with respect to the monolinguals, but more importantly no single pattern regarding gender differences was found in the distribution of the copulas. Thus, this work demonstrates that gender differences are not one-dimensional. |