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Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and EvolutionEdited by Stephen Fafulas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 23] 2020
► pp. 8–34
Language loss and language gain in Amazonia
On newly emergent varieties of a national language
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | James Cook University
The Amazon Basin is renowned for its high linguistic diversity. The history of Amazonian languages has been marred with language extinction and loss ever since the European conquest. Newly emergent varieties of the national languages – Portuguese and Spanish – bear the substratum influence of the indigenous languages. In many Amazonian languages, the necessity of always marking how the speaker knows things and being precise is linked to the obligatory category of evidentiality – grammatical marking of information source. In numerous varieties of Amazonian and Andean Spanish, a pragmatic convention to state the information source accounts for the evidential overtones of dizque across South America, where it has become an established feature of language varieties transmitted to children.
Keywords: Amazonian languages, linguistic diversity, evidentiality, language contact, ethnolect
Published online: 15 July 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.23.01aik
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.23.01aik
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