Karen Dakin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Karen Dakin plays a role.

Title

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.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Dakin, Karen 2017 Chapter 13. Western and Central Nahua dialects: Possible influences from contact with Cora and HuicholLanguage Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 264–300 | Chapter
This contribution explores the possibilities in the terms of comparative and historical linguistics that detailed analyses of six isoglosses in Nahua dialectology can serve to determine the chronology of key changes identified. Other proposals that treat those same changes are evaluated, in… read more
Dakin, Karen and Natalie Operstein 2017 Chapter 1. Language contact in Mesoamerica and beyondLanguage Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 2–28 | 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