Notes on the History and Morphosyntactic Characteristics of Spanish in Northern Belize

Authors

  • Osmer Balam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.15953

Keywords:

Spanish language-- Dialects-- Belize, Spanish language-- Belize-- Morphosyntax, Creole dialects, Spanish-- Belize, Languages in contact-- Belize

Abstract

The current descriptive analysis provides a sociohistorical overview of Northern Belizean Spanish (NBS), and it elaborates on salient morphosyntactic features of this understudied contact variety, as evidenced in the naturalistic discourse of bilinguals/trilinguals from Orange Walk, Belize. In particular, we focus on ‘determiner + uno’ constructions, bilingual compound verbs and gender assignment and agreement in NBS.

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How to Cite

Balam, . O. (2015). Notes on the History and Morphosyntactic Characteristics of Spanish in Northern Belize. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 35, 79-94. https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.15953