In recent years, research has increasingly pointed toward the universality of three linguistic constraints on code-switching: (1) an equivalence of structure constraint, (2) a size-of-constituent constraint, and (3) a free morpheme constraint. The evidence derived from this study challenges the universality of the first two of these constraints, and argues instead that their claim to universality is largely a function of the coincidental relative similarity in the syntactic structure of Spanish and English, the two languages upon which most code-switching studies have been based. The present study breaks out of the Spanish-English mold and draws upon data from a language contact situation in which the two languages are syntactically very different from each other, namely, Spanish and Hebrew. The evidence presented also challenges the frequently made assertion that type of code-switching, namely, intra- versus intersentential code-switching, is correlated with degree of bilingualism of the speaker. Finally, the evidence suggests that intrasentential code-switching ability cannot, as some have argued, universally be considered a measure of bilingualism nor a mark of the balanced bilingual. (Code-switching, Spanish, Hebrew, bilingualism, syntactic constraints)

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Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia

Linguistic constraints on intrasentential code-switching: A study of Spanish/Hebrew bilingualism*

An introductory course in the area ofSephardic Studies needs a textbook. But no book will cover all the material the instructor may want to include, and there will certainly be lacunae in areas for students' individual research projects. My particular case involved a course which would be especially attractive to history majors, so there was a wide variety of potential topics for student research: linguistics, international commerce, politics, historical and literary studies. Consequently, there were many-and widely varied-areas on which the students needed to have sources. What follows is a bibliography of English-language sources meant to supply some of those lacks. While it is extensive, this bibliography does not pretend to be complete. With the marvels of computers and merge files, however, I would be happy to keep adding entries. I will be most grateful to receive additional titles.

Establishing a Bibliography for Sephardic Studies

Changing definitions of gender boundaries are the subject of much theoretical inquiry today, with gender seen as a performative construct, where sexual differences are never simply a function of material differences but are always both marked and formed by discursive practices. The gender ambiguity of the transgendered body can be seen as a contradictory site of postmodernity, both as a symbol for postmodern flexibility and as a legible form of embodied subjectivity (Halberstam 2005: l5-18). Mainstream scholarship of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern, however, has generally remained unaffected by such theoretical questions. This in spite of the groundbreaking “Gay and Lesbian Issue” of the Medieval Feminist Newsletter as early as 1992 (Matter), followed by a number of other publications in the last decade, such as the collection of articles in Gender Transgressions (Taylor 1998), Queer Iberia (Blackmore and Hutcheson 1999), Queering the Middle Ages (Burger and Kruger 2001), and Same Sex Love and Desire among Women in the Middle Ages (Sautman and Sheingorn 2001), as well as Goldberg 1994, Fradenburg and Freccero 1996, Fuchs 1997, Delgado and Saint Saens 2000, Dangler 2001, Pugh 2004, the first section of articles in Cestaro 2004, and Freccero 2006. My aim here in examining a five-hundred-year old Hispanic ballad, La doncella guerrera, is to illustrate how a medievalism theoretically engaged with the present and with an interdisciplinary perspective might lead to a very different understanding of the past. In my estimation, such a framework for the doncella guerrera can broaden considerably the horizon in which the ballad can be understood, while at the same time such a richer reading can contribute another chapter to a queering of the Middle Ages. E. Ann Matter (3) has spoken of the need to rewrite compulsory patriarchal discourses of desire and fill in the “blank spaces” where queer desires might have been, for which Gregory Hutcheson cogently offers a new way to read: “we need to approach indirectly perhaps, to cross our eyes, and to read just beyond the text in efforts to bring into focus that which appears to be absent,” (265) which, as he adds, is not revisionism, but “a history beyond words.”

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Queering "The donçella guerrera"

LA CORÓNICA 42.1 FALL 2013 5-21 With the passing of Samuel G. Armistead we have lost a luminary in the field of medieval Spanish literature, a pioneer in the field of Judeo-Spanish literature and culture, an infinitely kind and generous mentor and a meticulous, original, erudite, courteous scholar and man. Many of us knew Sam personally and have stories of his generosity, good humor, love of animals, and passion for saving and singing Judeo-Spanish ballads. He was the best of mentors, colleagues and friends and the model scholar.

"Adio Kerido" In Memoriam: Samuel G. Armistead, 1927-2013

The speech of the Sephardic Jews have been defined as both language and dialect, depending always on the standpoint of the analyzer, but is it a language on its own right or is it “just a dialect”? What is, then, the difference between both concepts? In the case Judeo-Spanish could be considered a language, what are the criteria taken into account in the classification? In an attempt to answer these questions I will provide facts on the origin of both terms, their modern and politicized use as well as on the historical vicissitudes of Judeo-Spanish and its speakers. Their literature, both laic and religious, is covered with an emphasis on the most researched and relevant genres, namely: the biblical Sephardic translations, the Romancero and the modern press of the 19 th Century. A descriptive presentation of Judeo-Spanish main grammatical features precedes the last chapter, where both the diagnosis of Judeo-Spanish in the 20 th Century, and its prognosis for the 21 st , are given with the aim of determine its present state.

Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia

Citations

Linguistic constraints on intrasentential code-switching: A study of Spanish/Hebrew bilingualism*

Establishing a Bibliography for Sephardic Studies

Queering "The donçella guerrera"

"Adio Kerido" In Memoriam: Samuel G. Armistead, 1927-2013

The status of Judeo Spanish in diachronic and synchronic perpective.

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