Maryann Parada

List of John Benjamins publications in which Maryann Parada is involved.

Article

Parada, Maryann 2021 Anthroponymic perseverance of Spanish vestigial 〈x〉 Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact, Chappell, Whitney and Bridget Drinka (eds.), pp. 205–230 | Chapter

Until the early 19th century, the letter 〈x〉 was a common representation of the voiceless velar fricative /x/ (Quixote, brúxula). Despite the Royal Spanish Academy’s (RAE) 1815 elimination of 〈x〉 for /x/, it has survived in a number of Mexican indigenous toponyms and their derivatives as well as… read more