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Author Jara, Margarita

Title Spanish Diversity in the Amazon Dialect and Language Contact Perspectives
Published Boston : BRILL, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (368 p.)
Series Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Ser. ; v.18
Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Ser
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures, Tables, and Maps -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1. Spanish in Contact in the Amazon: Sociolinguistics -- 1. Introduction (Jara and Escobar) -- 2. Ethnocultural Languages in the Study of Language Contact: The Case of Amazonian Spanish (Escobar) -- Part 2. Discourse-pragmatics, Phonology and Morphosyntax -- 3. Mirativity in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: An Account of the Discourse Marker Ya Vuelta (Jara and Valenzuela) -- 4. Focus Marking in the Intonation of Peruvian Amazonian Spanish (García)
5. Tonal Units and Their Phonological Behavior in Amazonian Spanish from La Merced (Peru): An Exploration of the Intonational Patterns of Declarative and Interrogative Sentences (Elias-Ulloa) -- 6. Apuntes sobre la (no) Distinción de las Palatales Sonoras en el Castellano de Iquitos (Vigil) -- 7. Depalatalization and Delateralization in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Spanish /ʎ/ in Contact with Kichwa (O'Rourke) -- 8. Number and Possession in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: The Role of Animacy in the Emergence of Grammar (Vallejos-Yopán)
9. Feature Selection in Clitic Expression in Two Bilingual Amazonian Spanish Varieties (Mayer and Sánchez) -- Part 3. Lexicon, Morphology and Corpus -- 10. Dialectal Affiliation of the Quechua Loanwords in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: A First Approximation (Zariquiey) -- 11. Spanish-Quechua Symbiosis in Northern Expansion Varieties: Mixed Word Forms in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish and Colombian Inga (Muysken) -- 12. El Componente del Subcorpus Oral ALEC como Muestra del Español Hablado en la Amazonía Colombiana (Hincapié Moreno, López Barrios, Rubio López, Bonilla Huérfano, y Bernal Chávez)
Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index
Summary Spanish Diversity in the Amazon focusses on Spanish varieties spoken in the Peruvian, Ecuadorean and Colombian Amazon, and this volume is the first of its kind. It introduces studies on theoretical, methodological and descriptive studies on linguistic, typological, ethnographic, and contact linguistics perspectives
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Spanish language -- Variation -- Amazon River Region
Languages in contact -- Amazon River Region
Spanish language -- Variation -- Peru
Spanish language -- Variation -- Ecuador
Spanish language -- Variation -- Colombia
Languages in contact -- Peru
Languages in contact -- Ecuador
Languages in contact -- Colombia
Spanish language -- Variation.
Spanish language.
Languages in contact.
Amazon River Region.
Peru.
Ecuador.
Colombia.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Essays.
Essays.
Form Electronic book
Author Zariquiey, Roberto
Valenzuela, Pilar M
Escobar, Anna María
ISBN 9789004514645
9004514643