The Development of Grammar in Spanish and the Romance Languages
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loginMany linguists have noted the closeness of historical change andcreolization. This book broadens the study of processes of languagecontact and change by including not only historical linguisticsand creolistics but also first and second language acquisition (seeFaingold 1996b). This book does for grammar what a previous book(Faingold 1996b) did for phonology: it applies Bailey’s (1996) andMayerthaler’s (1988) seminal work on linguistic naturalness andmarkedness (developmental linguistics) in English and German tothe study of language development in children, foreign-languagelearners, creoles, and language history in Spanish and the Romancelanguages (Portuguese, French, Italian, Rumanian), including theso-called ‘daughter languages’ of Spanish, Papiamentu creole (spoken2Grammar in Spanish and Romance Languages
in the Dutch West Indies), and Palenquero creole (Colombia), Judeo-Spanish (Romania, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, and Chile); Fronterizo(Uruguay); and U.S. Spanish (Los Angeles, New York). Examples fromother languages are considered as well when relevant. In addition,this work uncovers mechanisms of markedness, implicational uni-versals, and linguistic variation across linguistic fields. The reader isgiven a substantial and original account of a unique corpus of datain a variety of settings. The study offers a systematic analysis ofa wide range of grammatical structures, including articles, demon-strative pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, and verbs.
