Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1973

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Rangel, Vicente H.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe the extent of the English lexical and syntactic influences on the Cuban Spanish of southeastern Florida. The data for this study were gathered from the following sources: native informants, newspapers, magazines, letters, radio and television programs, and advertising. The data was divided and analyzed in the following categories: loanshifts, hybrid creation, hybrid compounds, loan translation and syntactic interference. These data were further analyzed as to the sub-categories of formal speech, informal speech, formal written and informal written. As a result of this analysis, the most productive categories were found to be loanshifts and hybrid creation. The informal speech category accounted for almost 100% of the borrowing. There are three positions that may be taken regarding this new emerging Cuban dialect: (1) it may be totally accepted; (2) it may be totally rejected; (3) parts of it may be accepted, especially those expressions which convey a concept not found in the Cuban culture, e.g. coger un incompli, 'to get an incomplete.'

Extent

90 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.T.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13578

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