Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond
Edited by Karen Dakin, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 185] 2017. xv, 433 pp.
Natalie Operstein
List of John Benjamins publications for which Natalie Operstein plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology
Edited by Natalie Operstein and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein
[Typological Studies in Language, 110] 2015. xiii, 385 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Consonant Structure and Prevocalization
Natalie Operstein
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 312] 2010. x, 234 pp.
Subjects Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
2020 Lexical diversity and the issue of the basilect/acrolect distinction in Lingua Franca Language Ecology 4:2, pp. 202–234 | Article
In their typological survey of pidgins, Parkvall and Bakker (2013) observe that pidgin discourse is characterized by an exceptionally low type-token ratio. Taking this observation as its starting point, the present paper examines the type-token ratio in Lingua Franca, a contact language… read more
2018 Lingua Franca between pidginization and koineization Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:2, pp. 307–361 | Article
Published literature on Lingua Franca contains divergent views regarding its place in the taxonomy of contact language types. While this language is traditionally regarded as a pidgin, some scholars consider it more accurate to view it as a koine. This paper shows that Lingua Franca exhibits… read more
2017 Chapter 1. Language contact in Mesoamerica and beyond Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Chapter
The purpose of this introductory chapter is to provide an overview of the volume by outlining some of the major threads in the published literature on language contact and contact-induced change in Mesoamerica and adjacent areas, and by situating the volume and its individual chapters in the… read more
2017 The Spanish component in Lingua Franca Language Ecology 1:2, pp. 105–136 | Article
The best-documented variety of Lingua Franca (lf), the one spoken in Algiers just before the French colonization of Algeria, comprises three main Romance lexical components; in order of numerical importance, these are Italian, Spanish and French. While it is agreed that the French component is… read more
2017 Chapter 5. Sociolinguistic factors in loanword prosody Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 105–124 | Chapter
In their proposed taxonomy of loanword prosody types, Davis, Tsujimura & Tu (2012: 36) remark on the potentially interesting difference between the assimilation of loanwords into a majority prosodic pattern in the recipient language and their assimilation into a minority prosodic pattern. This… read more
2017 Chapter 8. Loanword evidence for dialect mixing in colonial American Spanish Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 171–186 | Chapter
This paper provides evidence that the dialect mixture to which speakers of Mesoamerican indigenous languages were exposed at the beginning of their contact with Spanish contained a number of different peninsular dialects. The specific focus of the study is on the phonological shape of early Spanish… read more
2015 Chapter 9. Valence-changing operations in Zaniza Zapotec Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 175–190 | Article
This chapter provides the first descriptive account of valence-changing devices in Zaniza Zapotec, an under-documented language from the Papabuco branch of Zapotec. As in the other Zapotec varieties, the number of valence-increasing mechanisms in Zaniza Zapotec outnumbers that of valence-lowering… read more
2015 Chapter 3. Valence-altering operations in zapotec Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 23–54 | Article
This chapter provides the first attempt to systematize data on valence-altering operations in Zapotec. It contributes both to cross-linguistic research on valence, by situating the valence phenomena of Zapotec within a common framework, and to Zapotecan linguistics, by discussing cross-family… read more
2015 Chapter 15. Verb inflection and valence in Zapotec Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 323–344 | Article
This chapter examines several types of synchronic and diachronic connections between valence and verb inflection in Zapotec. Among the issues examined are the origin of the division of Zapotec verbs into four inflectional classes, the alignment between verb classes and valence, the origin of the… read more
2015 Chapter 2. Introduction: A closer look at Zapotec Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 7–22 | Article
Serving as an overview to the language family and the volume, this chapter provides a brief history of research on Zapotec, a brief overview of the main grammatical features found in Zapotec languages, brief summaries of the individual chapters found in the volume, a brief resume of the… read more
2015 Review of Ehret (2011): History and the Testimony of Language Journal of Historical Linguistics 5:2, pp. 303–306 | Review
2012 Review of Bhatt & Veenstra (2011): Creoles and Typology Journal of Historical Linguistics 2:2, pp. 301–305 | Review
