In 1492, the Spanish monarchs expelled tens of thousands of Sephardic Jews from the Iberian Peninsula and other territories. Most Sephardim headed eastward and settled in Ottoman lands, where their language, known as Judeo-Spanish, survived and thrived for centuries. This book is the result of fieldwork in the Jewish community of Istanbul. It provides a historical and modern sociolinguistic account of the survival of the Judeo-Spanish dialect after centuries of fragmentation, French bilingualism, “Turkish only” language policies, emigration, and globalization. This work analyzes social patterns on the acquisition and use of Judeo-Spanish in the community as well as linguistic change throughout different generations of Istanbulite Sephardim. Focusing on several grammatical features, these data demonstrate that bilingualism with Turkish and reduced linguistic spaces promote language change. In a world where linguistic diversity is rapidly shrinking, the survival and future of Judeo-Spanish is a testament to the close bond between language, culture, community, and identity. (202 p.) Rey Romero earned a Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He completed B.A. degrees in Spanish language, Linguistics, and French language at Rice University in Houston, TX. His main areas of research are Spanish dialectology, Spanish in contact with non-Romance languages, and Heritage speakers of Spanish. He has presented his research in several national and international conferences such as New Ways of Analyzing Variation, International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Association of the Southwest, the Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and others. He has published articles on Judeo-Spanish in conference proceedings and in Ianua Revista Philologica Romanica. In 2007 he received a travel grant from the Institute of Turkish Studies in Washington, DC to analyze the maintenance of Judeo-Spanish in the Prince Islands off the coast of Istanbul. This research was published in 2011 as a chapter in Cortazar and Orozco’s Lenguaje, arte y revoluciones ayer y hoy: New Approaches to Hispanic Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies. In 2012, he received a grant from his university’s Organized Research Committee to document the Judeo-Spanish varieties spoken in New York City. Dr. Rey Romero is currently Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Houston-Downtown, where he teaches Spanish linguistics and translation, as well as Spanish courses for heritage speakers.

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