Jenny Dumont

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jenny Dumont is involved.

Title

Third Person References: Forms and functions in two spoken genres of Spanish

Jenny Dumont

This volume, a case study on the grammar of third person references in two genres of spoken Ecuadorian Spanish, examines from a discourse-analytic perspective how genre affects linguistic patterns and how researchers can look for and interpret genre effects. This marks a timely contribution to… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 71] 2016. ix, 179 pp.

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Dumont, Jenny and Damián Vergara Wilson 2016 Using the variationist comparative method to examine the role of language contact in synthetic and periphrastic verbs in Spanish Spanish in Context 13:3, pp. 394–419 | Article

Language contact and linguistic change are thought to go hand in hand (e.g. Silva-Corvalán 1994), however there are methodological obstacles, such as collecting data at different points in time or the availability of monolingual data for comparison, that make claims about language change tenuous.… read more