"Gender agreement in the Spanish of Equatorial Guinea"

 

Ewurama Okine, Ph.D. Candidate | Global Languages & Cultures

Abstract:

This research investigates gender agreement in the Spanish of Equatorial Guinea (EGS). Gender agreement is a linguistic feature that typically characterizes non-standard Spanish dialects, like Afro-Spanishes and Philippine Spanish. Research on EGS, an Afro-Spanish, is scant, with only a few partial accounts of its grammar, as well as the dynamics of its use. To date, only Lipski’s (1985) seminal book, The Spanish of Equatorial Guinea, presents a brief description of grammatical features of EGS, one of which is nonstandard gender agreement. There are currently no in-depth analyses of the scope of gender agreement in EGS. My research, thus, explores the presence and patterns of gender agreement in EGS. It identifies the linguistic and social factors that impact gender agreement in this Afro-Spanish.

Key terms: Equatorial Guinea, gender agreement, sociolinguistic variation, Spanish

 

 

 

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