Associate Doctoral Students
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Victor Fernandez-Mallat
El español de los inmigrantes de los Andes bolivianos en el Norte Grande de Chile
Convergencias y divergencias dialectales en el marco de una situación de contacto
1. Supervisor | Juan Carlos Godenzzi |
Abstract | Within the framework of the communication accommodation theory, the present study evaluates the extent to which Spanish-speaking migrants from the Bolivian Andes to San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) accommodate their speech to Chilean Spanish, using a comparative sociolinguistics methodology. Four ... |
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Claudia Winkle
World Englishes, do they structure sentences differently?
Information packaging in spoken varieties of English
1. Supervisor | Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Christian Mair |
Abstract | In my study, I analyze different strategies that are used to transform the canonical word order of English for specific discourse effects, for example, for putting emphasis on certain elements in a clause. The syntactic strategies investigated involve different types of cleft constructions ("it was ... |