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Publication details [#66360]

Muysken, Pieter. 2019. Multilingualism and mixed language in the mines of Potosí (Bolivia). International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2019 (258) : 121–142.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
colonialism | historical linguistics | language contact | language mixing | lexicon | multilingualism | profession | sociolinguistics | workplace conversation
Language as a subject
Aymara | Quechua | Spanish
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

Employing the methodology of historical sociolinguistics, this paper examines multilingualism and language contact in the mines of Potosí (Bolivia) in the colonial period.