Spanish in Colombia and New York City

This chapter brings together the most important conclusions drawn from our analyses of language variation and change in Barranquilla and New York City. The main findings reveal remarkable similarities in the linguistic conditioning on the expressions of futurity, possession and subject pronoun usage, respectively, in both communities, lending support to the theory of interdialectal parallelism. That is, the similarity of predictor effects found suggests that, despite the influence of language an