Author:
Potowski Kim,Torres Lourdes
Abstract
Abstract
This chapter examines subjunctive use across three generations of Spanish-English bilinguals with Mexican and Puerto Rican origin residing in Chicago. The goal of the chapter is to determine whether there are differences in subjunctive usage according to regional origin, generation, regional origin and generation, and level of Spanish proficiency and whether Spanish proficiency or generational group is more strongly connected to subjunctive use. The chapter begins with a review of studies of the subjunctive in U.S. Spanish and then describes the methodology. The chapter then presents subjunctive usage by regional origin, generation, regional origin and generation, and level of Spanish proficiency. Next, the chapter considers whether generational and/or dialectal differences emerge for subjunctive and indicative usage in obligatory and variable contexts separately by generation, regional origin and generation, and level of Spanish proficiency. Chapter findings are compared with other studies of subjunctive use in U.S. Spanish.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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