Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond

Editors

Karen Dakin | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Claudia Parodi | University of California, Los Angeles

Natalie Operstein | California State University, Fullerton

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Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data from living and/or extinct Mesoamerican languages (from the Mayan, Uto-Aztecan, Totonac-Tepehuan and Otomanguean groups), neighboring non-Mesoamerican languages (Apachean, Arawakan, Andean languages), as well as Spanish. Language-contact effects in these diverse languages and language groups are typically analyzed by different subfields of linguistics that do not necessarily interact with one another. It is hoped that this volume, which contains works from different scholarly traditions that represent a variety of approaches to the study of language contact, will contribute to the lessening of this compartmentalization. The volume is relevant to researchers of language contact and contact-induced change and to anyone interested both in the historical development and present features of indigenous languages of the Americas and Latin American Spanish.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 185] 2017. xv, 433 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.185

Table of Contents

Contributors

Abbreviations and acronyms | pp. xi–xii

Chapter 1. Language contact in Mesoamerica and beyond

Karen Dakin and Natalie Operstein | pp. 2–28

Chapter 2. Spanish influence in two Tepehua languages: Structure-preserving, structure-changing, and structure-preferring effects

James K. Watters | pp. 30–54

Chapter 3. Spanish infinitives borrowed into Zapotec light verb constructions

Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona | pp. 56–80

Chapter 4. The effect of external factors on the perception of sounds in Meꞌphaa

Stephen A. Marlett | pp. 82–104

Chapter 5. Sociolinguistic factors in loanword prosody

Natalie Operstein | pp. 106–124

Chapter 6. Some grammatical characteristics of the Spanish spoken by Lacandón and Mazahua bilinguals

Sergio Ibáñez Cerda, Israel Martínez Corripio and Armando Mora-Bustos | pp. 126–153

Chapter 7. Spanish loanwords in Amerindian languages and their implications for the reconstruction of the pronunciation of Spanish in Mesoamerica

Claudia Parodi | pp. 156–169

Chapter 8. Loanword evidence for dialect mixing in colonial American Spanish

Natalie Operstein | pp. 172–186

Chapter 9. The impact of language contact in Nahuatl couplets

Mercedes Montes de Oca Vega | pp. 188–208

Chapter 10. Spanish–Huastec (Mayan) 16th-century language contact attested in the Doctrina Christiana en la lengua guasteca by Friar Juan de la Cruz, 1571

Lucero Meléndez Guadarrama | pp. 210–227

Chapter 11. Historical review of loans in Chichimec (c.1767–2012)

Yolanda Lastra | pp. 230–235

Chapter 12. Nahuatl L2 texts from Northern Nueva Galicia: Indigenous language contact in the seventeenth century

Rosa H. Yáñez Rosales | pp. 238–261

Chapter 13. Western and Central Nahua dialects: Possible influences from contact with Cora and Huichol

Karen Dakin | pp. 264–300

Chapter 14. Loanwords in Apachean from indigenous languages of the Southwest

Willem J. de Reuse | pp. 302–318

Chapter 15. Language contact across the Andes: The case of Mochica and Hibito-Cholón

Rita Eloranta | pp. 320–334

Chapter 16. The Mesoamerican linguistic area revisited

Pamela Munro | pp. 336–353

Chapter 17. Language diversity, contact and change in the Americas: The model of Filippo Salvatore Gilij (1721–1789)

Matthias Pache, Arjan Mossel and Willem F. H. Adelaar | pp. 356–383

Chapter 18. Spanish in the Americas: A dialogic approach to language contact

Marta Luján | pp. 386–417

Index of subjects and terms | p. 419

“ Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond contains high-quality articles of interest to Mesoamericanists, historical linguists, sociolinguists, and any scholar interested in language-contact effects. The chapters include detailed descriptions of linguistic phenomena that reveal the complexity, layering, and interwoven nature of language contact.”

Carolyn J. MacKay, in Language, 95(3) pp. 565-568. (2019)

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2023. His Body Will Appear in All of the Mirrors: Explaining Christian Doctrine to the Nahuas in the 1548 Doctrina Christiana. Religions 14:12 ► pp. 1487 ff.

Hickey, Raymond

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

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2022. Reconstructing the Sociolinguistic History of Expansion Languages in the Americas: A Research Program. In The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact, ► pp. 344 ff.

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2022. Contact, Emergence, and Language Classification. In The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact, ► pp. 255 ff.

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