«My name is
Sara Carreira and I am doing my PhD within the research project “Improving the
visibility of Equatorial Guinea as a Spanish-speaking country”.
Equatorial Guinea is
still a largely unknown country in academic works on the Spanish language. Some
important authors in Spanish linguistics, such as Germán de Granda, Antonio
Quilis, Celia Casado-Fresnillo and John M. Lipski, have devoted part of their research
to Equatorial Guinea. However, modern publications are rare despite the
uniqueness of Equatorial Guinea’s history, sociolinguistic situation and
language contacts. The main goal of my PhD project is to generate a modern
dialectological description of the Spanish of Equatorial Guinea by analyzing
sociolinguistic guideline interviews (conducted by Sandra Schlumpf)
as well as linguistic tests and questionnaires.
This description
focuses on a selection of linguistic phenomena of the Spanish of Equatorial
Guinea mostly on the morphosyntactic level and to a lesser extent on the
lexical level. With regard to the first one, prepositional phenomena including
the construction “verb of movement + a / en + destiny” and queísmo
/ dequeísmo are examined. Pronominal phenomena are also analyzed such as
the explicit use of the subject personal pronoun; leísmo, laísmo
and loísimo; as well as the omission and redundant use of the pronoun of
reflexive verbs. On the lexical level, we analyze the use of the verbs oír,
entender, comprender, escuchar, enterarse; of the
terms castizar and castizo / castiza; and of the words disparar
and disparate. Finally, we study the use of the forms of address in the
Spanish of Equatorial Guinea.»
