Hispanic Contact Linguistics

This paper aims to test the influence of Catalan-Spanish bilingualism in the variable distribution of the morphological future (MF) cantaré and the periphrastic variant (PF) voy a cantar in Spanish. As Catalan does not have a PF, it has been suggested that in the areas where Spanish coexists with Catalan the MF is relatively more used. A contrastive study of a bilingual community (Palma de Mallorca) and a Spanish monolingual one (Alcalá de Henares) confirms this hypothesis: the frequency of use