Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it is found in Latin America.
It presents a painstakingly rigorous and ultimately fascinating account of the effects of contact with English on New York City Spanish. Equally importantly, it addresses the effects of contact with other varieties of Spanish.