Changing the focus: An empirical study of "Focalizing ser" (‘to be’) in Dominican Spanish

Changing the focus: An empirical study of "Focalizing ser" (‘to be’) in Dominican Spanish

This article examines the perception and production of the Focalizing Ser (FS) structure by Dominican speakers living in three urban communities: Santiago de los Caballeros, Sosúa, and Santo Domingo de Guzmán. FS has received increasing attention over the past years and several studies have investig...

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Main Author: Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015-01-01
Series:Isogloss
Subjects:
Information structure
Syntactic Variation
Focalizing Ser
Dominican Spanish
Online Access:https://revistes.uab.es/isogloss/isogloss/article/view/2

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