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La Expresion De La Pasividad En El Discurso Hispano En California Y Nuevo Mexico, 1855 1950


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This dissertation investigates the use of linguistic forms to express the passive voice in Hispanic newspapers published in California and New Mexico between 1855 and 1950 with a historical sociolinguistics perspective. The main goal is to establish the social and linguistics factors influencing the choice in using the periphrastic passive form (ser + participio pasivo) or the passive se form ( pasiva con se). The central hypothesis of this work is the change that is occurring in the Spanish language from the use of the periphrastic passive form towards the use of the passive se. The second hypothesis is that this change is accelerated in the Spanish in the United States by English influence. The third hypothesis states that increasing agents presence heading by the preposition por in the passive se structure is directly related with that change. In order to examine these hypotheses this work also examines several newspapers from Mexico City published in the same period. The results of this investigation do not show the change in the Spanish expression of passive voice in the monolingual context, although this change was verified in the Spanish in the United States. The contact between the English and Spanish languages affects the uses of passive expressions influencing the change from the periphrastic passive form towards the passive se in California, in New Mexico, however, this change was rejected because of socio-historical reasons. Results show two dialectal areas in the passive use in Spanish in the United States: California and New Mexico. Finally, the last hypothesis points out the incidence of the agents presence in the passive se structures in the increase usage of this form. This hypothesis is also proved in this investigation.


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