Language contact and change in Mesoamerica and beyond / edited by Karen Dakin, Claudia Parodi, Natalie Operstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dakin, Karen, editor.

Parodi, Claudia, editor.

Operstein, Natalie, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; 185.

Studies in Language Companion Series ; Volume 185

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Central America.

Languages in contact.

Linguistic change--Central America.

Linguistic change.

Indians of Central America--Languages.

Indians of Central America.

Central America--Languages.

Central America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (451 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data from living and/or extinct Mesoamerican languages (from the Mayan, Uto-Aztecan, Totonac-Tepehuan and Otomanguean groups), neighboring non-Mesoamerican languages (Apachean, Arawakan, Andean languages), as well as Spanish. Language-contact effects in these diverse languages and language groups are typically analyzed by different subfields of linguistics that do not necessarily interact with one another. It is hoped that this volume, which contains works from different scholarly traditions that represent a variety of approaches to the study of language contact, will contribute to the lessening of this compartmentalization. The volume is relevant to researchers of language contact and contact-induced change and to anyone interested both in the historical development and present features of indigenous languages of the Americas and Latin American Spanish.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Abbreviations and acronyms

Language contact in mesoamerica and beyond / Karen Dakin and Natalie Operstein

Spanish influence in two tepehua languages : structure-preserving, structure-changing, and structure-preferring effects / James K. Watters

Spanish infinitives borrowed into zapotec light verb constructions / Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona

The effect of external factors on the perception of sounds in me'phaa / Stephen A. Marlett

Sociolinguistic factors in loanword prosody / Natalie Operstein

Some grammatical characteristics of the Spanish spoken by lacandón and mazahua bilinguals / Sergio Ibáñez Cerda, Israel Martínez Corripio and Armando Mora-Bustos

Spanish loanwords in Amerindian languages and their implications for the reconstruction of the pronunciation of Spanish in Mesoamerica / Claudia Parodi

Loanword evidence for dialect mixing in colonial American Spanish / Natalie Operstein

The impact of language contact in nahuatl couplets / Mercedes Montes de Oca Vega

Spanish-huastec (mayan) 16th-century language contact attested in the doctrina christiana en la lengua guasteca by Friar Juan de la Cruz, 1571 / Lucero Meléndez Guadarrama

Historical review of loans in chichimec (c. 1767-2012) / Yolanda Lastra

Nahuatl L2 texts from northern nueva galicia : indigenous language contact in the seventeenth century / Rosa H. Yáñez Rosales

Western and central nahua dialects : possible influences from contact with cora and huichol / Karen Dakin

Loanwords in apachean from indigenous languages of the southwest / Willem J. de Reuse

Language contact across the andes : the case of mochica and hibito-cholón / Rita Eloranta

The Mesoamerican linguistic area revisited / Pamela Munro

Language diversity, contact and change in the Americas : the model of Filippo Salvatore Gilij (1721-1789) / Matthias Pache, Arjan Mossel and Willem F. H. Adelaar

Spanish in the Americas : a dialogic approach to language contact / Marta Luján

Index of subjects and terms

Index of authors

Index of language, place, person and ethnic group names

Index of languages.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.