Spanish in Four Continents: Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism

This collection examines the effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on the development of dialectal varieties of Spanish in Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Nineteen essays investigate a variety of complex situations of contact between typologically different languages, including Basque, Bantu languages, English, and Quechua.

Carmen Silva-Corvalán is a professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Sociolingüística: Teoría y análisis (Alhambra, 1989) and Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 1994).