Siempre and todo el tiempo

Bilingual dialects of Spanish in the U.S. tend to accelerate language change arising from variability already present in non-contact dialects. In San Antonio, Texas, variability between todo el tiempo and siempre suggests that the former has converged with the latter semantically. In the following example, the periphrastic form is used synonymously with siempre: Yo todo el tiempo les digo a mis chamacos.... 146 occurrences from an 18-speaker sample allow for quantitative and qualitative examination of the data. Results from variable rule analysis show generation to be the most predictive social factor for todo el tiempo. Reasons for its increased use by the third and fourth generations are suggested to include the erosion of semantic constraints, the greater semantic transparency of the periphrastic expression, the advantage of exploiting limited lexical resources, and ongoing language shift to English

Convergence (economics) · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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