Full Description
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
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Contributors; 3. Abbreviations and acronyms; 4. Chapter 1. Language contact in Mesoamerica and beyond (by Dakin, Karen); 5. Chapter 2. Spanish influence in two Tepehua languages: Structure-preserving, structure-changing, and structure-preferring effects (by Watters, James K.); 6. Chapter 3. Spanish infinitives borrowed into Zapotec light verb constructions (by de Azcona, Rosemary G. Beam); 7. Chapter 4. The effect of external factors on the perception of sounds in Me phaa (by Marlett, Stephen A.); 8. Chapter 5. Sociolinguistic factors in loanword prosody (by Operstein, Natalie); 9. Chapter 6. Some grammatical characteristics of the Spanish spoken by Lacandon and Mazahua bilinguals (by Ibanez Cerda, Sergio); 10. Chapter 7. Spanish loanwords in Amerindian languages and their implications for the reconstruction of the pronunciation of Spanish in Mesoamerica (by Parodi, Claudia); 11. Chapter 8. Loanword evidence for dialect mixing in colonial American Spanish (by Operstein, Natalie); 12. Chapter 9. The impact of language contact in Nahuatl couplets (by Vega, Mercedes Montes de Oca); 13. Chapter 10. Spanish-Huastec (Mayan) 16th-century language contact attested in the Doctrina Christiana en la lengua guasteca by Friar Juan de la Cruz, 1571 (by Guadarrama, Lucero Melendez); 14. Chapter 11. Historical review of loans in Chichimec (c.1767-2012) (by Lastra, Yolanda); 15. Chapter 12. Nahuatl L2 texts from Northern Nueva Galicia: Indigenous language contact in the seventeenth century (by Rosales, Rosa H. Yanez); 16. Chapter 13. Western and Central Nahua dialects: Possible influences from contact with Cora and Huichol (by Dakin, Karen); 17. Chapter 14. Loanwords in Apachean from indigenous languages of the Southwest (by Reuse, Willem J. de); 18. Chapter 15. Language contact across the Andes: The case of Mochica and Hibito-Cholon (by Eloranta, Rita); 19. Chapter 16. The Mesoamerican linguistic area revisited (by Munro, Pamela); 20. Chapter 17. Language diversity, contact and change in the Americas: The model of Filippo Salvatore Gilij (1721-1789) (by Pache, Matthias); 21. Chapter 18. Spanish in the Americas: A dialogic approach to language contact (by Lujan, Marta); 22. Index of subjects and terms; 23. Index of authors; 24. Index of place, person and ethnic group names; 25. Index of languages
