The Department of Spanish & Portuguese presents the Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium's invited speaker, Dr. Nicté Fuller Medina. She will present her lecture, entitled, "When “uno lo hace mix”: Revisiting narratives of exceptionalism and deficiency surrounding bilingual speech." 

Despite documentation in various language pairs, consensus on the classification of structures such as hacer mix (do mix, 'to mix') is lacking. Drawing on data from two corpora of Belizean varieties of Spanish, I discuss the underlying process giving rise to these structures in order to determine their status with respect to competing descriptions (codeswitch, borrowing, third grammar structure, etc.). Additionally, through comparative analysis pf data from the Older Recordings of Belizean varieties of Spanish with contemporary data, I show that these structures most likely emerge as a function of increasing bilingualism and language contact with little evidence of erosion of the Spanish verbal paradigm. I then discuss these data in the context of monoglossic ideologies which, on the one hand, deem mixed discourse to be a reflection of linguistic deficiency and, on the other, frame bilingual speech as exceptional.

Dr. Nicté Fuller Medina is a CLIR-Mellon Fellow in Data Curation in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Friday, March 19, 2021

3:15 PM - 4:35 PM 

Zoom Link: https://osu.zoom.us/j/93022675404?pwd=TGYxYnp1bjFzQzFsZUNFTlN5QkEzUT09#success

Meeting ID: 930 2267 5404 

Password: 548037 

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