Date of Award

12-1-2021

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Program

Spanish

Content Description

1 online resource (x, 107 pages) : color illustrations.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Lotfi Sayahi

Committee Members

Sara L Zhaler, Patrick E Lawrence

Keywords

Future time expression, Morphosyntax, Second Language Acquisition, Social sciences, Spanish language, Variation, Second language acquisition

Subject Categories

Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics | Linguistics | Reading and Language

Abstract

The present dissertation sets out to investigate the acquisition of variation in future-time expression by English speakers L2 learners of Spanish in a high school setting. I explore the variable use of the morphological future, the periphrastic future, and the present indicative to express the future time in Spanish by the participants. A total of 2,282 tokens were collected at three different times during the school year. The participants were attending year six of Spanish instruction. The study takes into consideration previously published research on the use of future markers by native speakers and by non-native speakers. The present study analyzes the effect of linguistic variables that are known to constrain future markers such as grammatical person, temporal distance reference, clause type, lexical content of the verb; as well as the effect that classroom instruction and gender have on the selection of future-time expression.

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