• Preface


• 1: Continuity, language contact, and dialectical leveling in Spanish in NYC


• 2: Interviews and transcripts


• 3: The envelope of variation and the formation of the corpus


• 4: The pronoun rate: Delineating New York Latino communities


• 5: Language contact: Generation, exposure, and English ability groups


• 6: Dialectal leveling in Spanish in New York


• 7: A multivariate approach to continuity, contact, and leveling


• 8: Internal evidence for continuity and contact


• 9: Internal evidence for continuity and leveling


• 10: The grammar of bilinguals in New York


• Bibliography


• Appendix 1 - Questionnaire


• Appendix 2 - Coding Manual

Ricardo Otheguy is Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Ana Celia Zentella is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego.

Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it is found in Latin America.