Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer… read more
In this chapter we present the causal and noncausal coding patterns for 31 verb pairs in P’urhepecha (isolate, western Mexico). We observe a strong preference for an equipollent coding type through contrasting suffixes, and a secondary preference for a suffix-marked causative type. The variety… read more
Noun phrases (NPs) constitute one of the most frequent sites where bilingual speakers code-switch. In this chapter we aim to provide a comprehensive overview of research into grammatical gender assignment in mixed NPs, namely NPs containing a noun from one language and a gender-agreeing element… read more
In this chapter I present a three-way typology of olfactory language in Purepecha, comprising: (i) abstract terms, composed of one of 15 perception roots and the smell-specific ‘spatial couplet’ morphology -k’u and -nti; (ii) descriptive terms whose root refers to another state or event, such as… read more
