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SPAN 5220/7220 20th Century Peninsular Literature
T 3:30 - 6:00pm, Javier Krauel
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SPAN 5320/7320 Spanish American Literature, 20th and/or 21st Centuries
Th 3:30 - 6:00pm, Élika Ortega-Guzmán
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SPAN 5440/7440 Trends in Hispanic Linguistics: Contact Varieties of Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Outcomes
TTh 2:00 - 3:15pm, Javier Rivas
Spanish and English have been in direct contact in the United States for several centuries. In addition, different dialects of Spanish are also in a contact situation in many parts of the country. In this course, we will study how Spanish changes by considering both contact with English and contact between two or more Spanish dialects. We will focus on morphosyntactic variation and change, including grammaticalization, the process whereby a lexical item or construction acquires a grammatical meaning in a specific context of use. Course topics will include tense-aspect-mood markers, subject expression and position, object marking, clitic position, and discourse markers, among others. We will discuss how and to what an extent processes of morphosyntactic variation and change in US Spanish give rise to contact-related phenomena including accommodation, borrowing, code-switching, convergence and simplification. Special emphasis will be placed on studies that approach language from a functionalist, usage-based perspective.