Pre-Historical Language Contact in Peruvian Amazonia: A dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan)
Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
[Contact Language Library, 58] 2021. xvii, 211 pp.
Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
List of John Benjamins publications for which Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of South America
2024 When words sail through the desert: The Songhay layer in Wolof Linguistics in the Netherlands 2024, Bril, Marco and Kristel Doreleijers (eds.), pp. 134–151 | Article
Wolof is generally classified as a North-Atlantic language within the Niger-Congo phylum. However, despite a considerable number of cognates (Merrill 2021b), this classification is more of a working hypothesis than a demonstrated fact. Linguists such as Wilson (1989) and Lüpke (2020) consider… read more
2024 Dynamic Linguistics: An aperitif Evolution and Revolution in Language and Linguistics, Berns, Janine, Marie Steffens and Esther Baiwir (eds.), pp. 88–114 | Article
As opposed to static approaches, the dynamic approach (DA) emphatically distances itself from the routinised use of the concept of language (as in the English, French or Quechua language), the sole reliance on the dichotomised model of language history explained by vertical change (the Stammbaum… read more
2023 The contact-based emergence of the subject-focus construction in Wolof: A dynamic perspective Linguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 4–22 | Article
In this article, we focus on the origin of the Wolof subject-focus construction (SFC) from a dynamic perspective. In Wolof, argument focus is expressed morpho-syntactically by means of copulaless cleft constructions consisting of the juxtaposition of the focus and a free relative clause. The… read more
2020 Mixing and semantic transparency in the genesis of Yilan Japanese Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 261–282 | Chapter
In this short piece, the so-called ‘Yilan Creole’ spoken in Yilan County, Taiwan (Republic of China) is reanalysed in light of contemporary discussions on mixing and the transparency principle as factors behind the genesis of languages. I argue that there is evidence to conceive the emergence of… read more
2019 Chapter 13. Nominalization in Shawi/Chayahuita Nominalization in Languages of the Americas, Zariquiey, Roberto, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck (eds.), pp. 491–514 | Chapter
This paper deals with the Shawi nominalizing suffixes -su’~-ru’~-nu’ ‘general nominalizer’, -napi/-te’/-tun‘performer/agent nominalizer’, -pi’‘patient nominalizer’, and -nan ‘instrument nominalizer’. The goal of this article is to provide a description of nominalization in Shawi. Throughout this… read more