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LEXICAL AND SYNTACTICAL IMPACT OF ENGLISH ON THE CUBAN SPANISH SPOKEN IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA

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1973
Summary:
The purpose of this study is to describe the extent of the English lexical and syntactic influences on the Cuban Spanish of southeastern Florida. The data for this study were gathered from the following sources: native informants, newspapers, magazines, letters, radio and television programs, and advertising. The data was divided and analyzed in the following categories: loanshifts, hybrid creation, hybrid compounds, loan translation and syntactic interference. These data were further analyzed as to the sub-categories of formal speech, informal speech, formal written and informal written. As a result of this analysis, the most productive categories were found to be loanshifts and hybrid creation. The informal speech category accounted for almost 100% of the borrowing. There are three positions that may be taken regarding this new emerging Cuban dialect: (1) it may be totally accepted; (2) it may be totally rejected; (3) parts of it may be accepted, especially those expressions which convey a concept not found in the Cuban culture, e.g. coger un incompli, 'to get an incomplete.'
Title: THE LEXICAL AND SYNTACTICAL IMPACT OF ENGLISH ON THE CUBAN SPANISH SPOKEN IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA.
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Name(s): FERNANDEZ, ROBERTO G.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Rangel, Vicente H., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1973
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 90 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this study is to describe the extent of the English lexical and syntactic influences on the Cuban Spanish of southeastern Florida. The data for this study were gathered from the following sources: native informants, newspapers, magazines, letters, radio and television programs, and advertising. The data was divided and analyzed in the following categories: loanshifts, hybrid creation, hybrid compounds, loan translation and syntactic interference. These data were further analyzed as to the sub-categories of formal speech, informal speech, formal written and informal written. As a result of this analysis, the most productive categories were found to be loanshifts and hybrid creation. The informal speech category accounted for almost 100% of the borrowing. There are three positions that may be taken regarding this new emerging Cuban dialect: (1) it may be totally accepted; (2) it may be totally rejected; (3) parts of it may be accepted, especially those expressions which convey a concept not found in the Cuban culture, e.g. coger un incompli, 'to get an incomplete.'
Identifier: 13578 (digitool), FADT13578 (IID), fau:10420 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.T.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.
Subject(s): Spanish language--Foreign elements--English.
Spanish language--Dialects--Florida.
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