Language Contact and Change in the Americas

Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun

Editors

Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker | University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Diane M. Hintz | SIL International

Carmen Jany | California State University, San Bernardino

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This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially with regard to contact phenomena in languages of North America, Meso-America and South America. The individual chapters cover a broad range of topics, including sound change, morphosyntactic change, lexical semantics, grammaticalization, language endangerment, and discourse-pragmatic change. With chapters from distinguished scholars and talented newcomers alike, this book will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in internally- and externally-motivated language change.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] 2016. viii, 416 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.173

Table of Contents

Foreword | pp. vii–viii

Language contact and change in the Americas: The state of the art

Sarah G. Thomason | pp. 1–14

Part I North America: California

Yuki, Pomoan, Wintun, and Athabaskan: Language Contact in Round Valley, California

Uldis Balodis | pp. 15–32

The role of passives in the formation of hierarchical systems in Northern California

Carmen Jany | pp. 33–66

Assessing the effects of language contact on Northeastern Pomo

Neil Alexander Walker | pp. 67–90

Synchronic and diachronic accounts of phonological features in Central Chumash languages

Timothy P. Henry | pp. 91–104

Part II North America: Athabaskan, Iroquoian, and Uto-Aztecan

Contact and semantic shift in extreme language endangerment: Ahtna riverine directionals in a cardinal world

Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker | pp. 105–138

“Excorporation” in a Dene (Athabaskan) language

Keren Rice | pp. 139–166

Contact and change in Oneida

Clifford Abbott | pp. 167–188

Huron/Wendat interactions with the Seneca language

Megan Lukaniec and Wallace Chafe | pp. 189–218

The usual suspects: Multiple grammaticalization of ‘do’, ‘be’, ‘have’, and ‘go’ in Ute

T. Givón | pp. 219–246

Part III Northern Mexico, Mesoamerica, and South America

Language documentation and historical linguistics

Lyle Campbell | pp. 247–272

The Jakaltek Popti’ noun classifier system: Changes due to Spanish contact

Colette Grinevald | pp. 273–296

Language contact and word structure: A case study from north-west Amazonia

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 297–314

Auxiliation and typological shift: The interaction of language contact and internallymotivated change in Quechua

Daniel J. Hintz | pp. 315–338

Discourse pattern replication in South Conchucos Quechua and Andean Spanish

Diane M. Hintz | pp. 339–362

Part IV The Americas and beyond

Measuring language typicality, with special reference to the Americas

Bernard Comrie | pp. 363–384

Words for ‘dog’ as a diagnostic of language contact in the Americas

Matthias Pache, Søren Wichmann and Mikhail Zhivlov | pp. 385–410

Index | pp. 411–416

“This book starts in California, as is fitting for a book in honor of Marianne Mithun, and then works its way outward, reflecting the state of knowledge about language contact and change in the Americas, where considerably more is known about North America but where South America offers exciting new areas for research in this field. The book is a just tribute to one of the most important contemporary scholars of American indigenous languages, and to someone for whom language contact and change have been central motifs.”

Nora C. England, The University of Texas at Austin

“Marianne Mithun's work has influenced a generation of scholars, helping to shape the direction of scholarship in Native American languages. Inspired by Mithun's passion and flair for seeking explanation within the wider context of language use, the authors explore a range of contact phenomena relevant not only to the Americas but to our understanding of language evolution more broadly. The breadth and depth of these contributions provide clear evidence of a bright future for Americanist linguistics.”

Gary Holton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

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Kalt, Susan E.

2021. Acquisition, Loss and Innovation in Chuquisaca Quechua—What Happened to Evidential Marking?. Languages 6:2 ► pp. 76 ff.

Kalt, Susan E. & Jonathan A. Geary

2021. Typological Shift in Bilinguals’ L1: Word Order and Case Marking in Two Varieties of Child Quechua. Languages 6:1 ► pp. 42 ff.

Hickey, Raymond

2020. Language Contact and Linguistic Research. In The Handbook of Language Contact, ► pp. 1 ff.

Turan, Dilek, Elena Antonova-Ünlü, Çiğdem Sağın-Şimşek & Mehmet Akkuş

2020. Looking for contact-induced language change: Converbs in heritage Turkish. International Journal of Bilingualism 24:5-6 ► pp. 1035 ff.

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