Joseph Kern
List of John Benjamins publications in which Joseph Kern is involved.
Articles
2019 The permeability of tag questions in a language contact situation: The case of Spanish-Portuguese bilinguals Pragmatics 29:4, pp. 463–492 | Article
In this paper, we utilize negative polarity tag questions in order to assess to what extent discourse-pragmatic variables are susceptible to language contact induced changes. Based on a comparison of forms and functions of negative tags in the varieties spoken by Portuguese-Spanish bilinguals in… read more
2017 Unpacking the variable context of quotatives: Evidence from U.S. Southwest Spanish Spanish in Context 14:1, pp. 124–143 | Article
The present study analyzes the use of quotatives in Spanish among twenty-four Spanish-English bilinguals from Southern Arizona and assesses the possible influence of English contact in their use. Cameron (1998) defines the envelope of variation of quotatives in Spanish as verbs of direct report,… read more