Essays

From this page you can view or print a series of articles dealing with aspects of Guatemalan Spanish and its dictionary resources. If you use these materials in your own work, please acknowledge the author(s) and this site. If you cite these materials in other publications, please cite by author, title, and date as found on the essay, and credit this site as follows:

On-line at http://academic.csuohio.edu/guatespn/

Essays are authored by Laura Martin, Ph.D., unless otherwise noted.

Currently available and projected essays include:

• Guatemalan Spanish Dictionaries: A Linguist’s Review
  
• The Status of [š] in Guatemalan Spanish:
  • The Status of [š] in Guatemalan Spanish (1997)
  • The Status of [š] in Guatemalan Spanish: A Review of the Dictionaries
  • Words with [š] in the Sandoval dictionary
  • Words with [š] not registered in the Sandoval dictionary
    
• The Sources of Indigenous Vocabulary in the Sandoval Dictionary by Laura Martin and Ajpub’ Pablo García Ixmatá
  
• Sandoval and the Quijote

Additional essays are being added as they become available. To contribute and essay or to comment on those posted here, please communicate with Dr. Laura Martin at l.martin@csuohio.edu.