Christina Isabelli-García, PhD

Illinois Wesleyan University

Research Paper Information - Spn 403 History of the Spanish Language

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Proposal of research paper due: October 22, 2008 Download (pdf) the list of possible research paper topics.

The proposal should consist of the following 4 elements:

First paragraph: an introduction and presentation of the problem addressed. 

Second paragraph: the research questions or hypotheses that your study will investigate. The question you chose to address should come directly from those listed on the handout. 

Rough outline: I will use your outline to evaluate if you are going in the appropriate direction, so you need to use a format that will make reading easy.  We will use the Traditional Alpha-Numeric Format (example below).  The outline should show me that you can answer the questions posed on the downloaded handout (linked above).  Careful that the outline answers the questions posed in the downloaded handout (linked above).

Reference list: Include relevant citations each with a one sentence summary (minimum 5).  The references have to be from full text sources found on the shelves or online from books or academic journals (I've listed some starting points below - do NOT cite encyclopedic websites like Wikipedia).  Use the APA 5th edition referencing style.  You don't need to have the books in your possession, but this is a good time to start requesting books and articles through interlibrary loan (however many are found on the Ames libarary shelves.  If you need a tutorial, make an appointment with a librarian at the Ames Library, if you are already familiar with this process go to the Ames Libarary website. The books/articles take about 1-2 weeks to arrive during busy times in the semester. 


A good place to start is with the list of references I have listed below.


Article Indexes
Ames Library Database
(start with Article1st, JSTOR, or Wilson Select Plus)

Articles can be downloaded in full text format directly from the Ames Library electronic reserves page. Insert Isabelli in the search box. Click on Spn 403 (even though it says Intro to Spanish Linguistics). It'll prompt you to insert a password, insert bilingual

• Casado-Fresnillo. Resultados del contacto del español con el árabe y con las lenuas autóctonas de Guinea Ecuatorial.
• Dvorak. (1982). Subject-object reversals in the use of gustar among New York Hispanics.
• Eliás-Olivares (1995). Discourse strategies of Mexican-American Spanish.
  
• García, M. (1995). En los sábados, en la mañana, en veces: A look at en in the Spanish of San Antonio. 
• García, M.  (1999). Nomás in a Mexican-American dialect.
  
• García, O. & M. Cuevas. (1995).  Spanish ability and use among second-generation nuyoricans.
• Gutiérrez. (1995). On the future of the future tense in the Spanish of the Southwest.
• Gutiérrez. Simplification and innovation in US Spanish.
• Hammond.  (1999). On the non-occurrence of the phone (˜r) in the Spanish sound system.
  
• Hidalgo. (1990). On the question of 'standard' versus 'dialect': Implications for teaching Hispanic college students.
  
• Lipski & Garcia.  Siempre and todo el tiempo.
• Morales (1995). The loss of the Spanish impersonal se among bilinguals.
• Núñez-Cedeño. (1999). On interpreting generic pronouns in Spanish. permission for use denied by publisher
  
• Núñez-Cedeño. Pérdida de inversión de subjecto en interrogativos adverbiales del español caribeño.
• Ocampo. (1990). El subjuntivo en tres generaciones de hablantes bilingües.
• Ringer Uber. (1999). Forms of address in the commercial Spanish of five Latin American cities.
• Silva-Corvalán. (1982). Code-shifting patterns in Chicano Spanish.
• Smead & Halvor Clegg. (1990). Aztequismos en el español chicano.
  

• Spaulding, Robert. How Spanish Grew. Berkeley: University California Press, 1943. 
• Lapesa, Rafael. Historia de la lengua española. 9th ed. Madrid: Gredos, 1981. 
• Penny, Ralph. A History of the Spanish Language. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Canfield, D. Lincoln. Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas. University Chicago Press, 1981.
• Whitley, M. Stanley. Spanish/English Contrasts. Georgetown University Press, 2002.

History and Dialectology of Spanish

First draft of research paper due: November 12, 2008 look at requirements in course pamphlet

Final paper due: December 3, 2008 look at requirements in course pamphlet