Due to many Spanish speaking immigrants, this has created a cross language called Spanglish. Spanglish is the mixture of both Spanish and English. Carmen Silva-Corvalán tries to prove that societal bilingualism is not dependent on syntax, but dependent on lexicon and pragmatics. The source language transfers through both lexical units and situational acts, and in doing this the syntax of the recipient language does not change, while the recipient language only changes at a societal level; because of this, when individuals find themselves needing to communicate and think quickly, Spanglish is used.