This linguistic study describes the internal structure of the Spanish of the Salitre-Cabagra Bribris and compares this form of Spanish to standard Costa Rican Spanish. / The corpus consists of selected data from a representative sample of Bribri Indians living in the Las Brisas area of the Salitre-Cabagra Indian Reservation in southern Costa Rica. The material used in the study was collected in the field by the author, and was compared with standard Costa Rican Spanish and with the Spanish of a local Hispanic control group matched for age, sex, and education level. / The study determines more precisely the phonological and morpho-syntactic composition of the Spanish of the Salitre-Cabagra Bribris, and also discusses its relationship to the local and popular varieties of Spanish. Occasional references are also made to the Bribri language. The author points out the main linguistic features and processes that characterize the Spanish of a group undergoing a transition period in which group members are in various stages of the process of exchanging a Chibchan language, Bribri, for Spanish. / The phonological description follows a structuralist format and concentrates principally on the segmental phonemes and their allophonic distribution. / The morpho-syntactic section concentrates on the grammatical differences from standard Spanish presented in the Spanish of the Bribris. For this section a generative-transformational format is used. / The study thus establishes possible guidelines for further examination of the Spanish of the remaining Bribri and other indigenous populations of Costa Rica, who are also undergoing similar transition processes of acquiring Spanish. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-03, Section: A, page: 0900. / Major Professor: James L. Wyatt. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76356 |
| Contributors | Lininger, Barbara Ann., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 319 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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