Yolanda Lastra
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yolanda Lastra plays a role.
Articles
2017 Chapter 11. Historical review of loans in Chichimec (c.1767–2012) Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 230–235 | Chapter
In this paper an attempt is made to sketch the history of loans from Spanish to Jonaz Chichimec, the only surviving Chichimec (Otopamean) language. These Chichimecs were hunters and gatherers whom the Spanish conquerors despised and feared. Their refusal to quit their ancient way of life was the… read more
2009 6. Toward a study of language variation and change in Jonaz Chichimeco Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Stanford, James N. and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 153–171 | Article
Jonaz Chichimec is an endangered Otopamean language spoken in Misión de Chichimecas adjacent to the city of San Luis de la Paz in Guanajuato, Mexico. Four ongoing phonological changes are described with respect to the age of the speakers. The restructuring of the system of classifiers used for… read more
1995 Is there an Indian Spanish? Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics: Papers from the XXII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, El Paso/Juárez, February 22–24, 1992, Amastae, Jon, Grant Goodall, M. Montalbetti and M. Phinney (eds.), pp. 123 ff. | Article