Robert N Smead (*) The creati...

Robert N Smead (*)

The creation of neologisms end linguistic borrowing is a tangled process. For donor language patterns to be transformed into entertainer language replicas, phonological and morphological adaptation must take place. Part and parcel of that adaptation is the assignment of form relative to sex to loanwords in a army language like Spanish. The at hand article examines gender assignment in pair corpora of loanwords (New Mexican and Southern Colorado Spanish: N=212 and General Chicano Spanish: N=595) between the sides of the application of variable lordship methodology (GoldVarb 2), five factors are