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1 online resource |
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Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; volume 185 |
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 185. 0165-7763
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| Contents |
Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Abbreviations and acronyms; Chapter 1. Language contact in Mesoamerica and beyond; 1. Introduction; 2. Language contact in Mesoamerica and beyond; 2.1 Contact among the Indigenous languages; 2.2 Influence of Indigenous languages on Spanish; 2.3 Influence of Spanish on Indigenous languages; 3. Chapter summaries; 4. Conclusion; References |
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Chapter 2. Spanish influence in two Tepehua languages: Structure-preserving, structure-changing, and structure-preferring effects1. Introduction; 2. Structure-preserving change; 2.1 Basic borrowing; 2.2 Incorporating Spanish verb forms; 3. Structure-changing influence; 3.1 Loss of the uvular; 3.2 Effect on syllable structure; 3.3 From three vowel positions to five; 3.4 Loss of contrast between voiced and voiceless laterals; 3.5 Bilabials and orthography; 4. Structure-preferring influence; 4.1 Progressive aspect; 4.2 Applicatives and prepositions; 5. Final observations; Acknowledgements |
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4.2 Comparison of reduced loanwords and other forms vs. borrowed infinitives4.3 Can other verbs function as light verbs with borrowed nouns?; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4. The effect of external factors on the perception of sounds in Me phaa; 1. Introduction; 2. The language and its socio-historical context; 3. The development of a written form; 4. Factors that may have affected perception; 4.1 Contact with other Indigenous languages of the area; 4.2 Linguistic analysis; 4.3 Contact with Spanish; 4.4 Contact with Spanish-language education |
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4.5 Exposure to a particular kind of educational system4.6 Mutual contact between varieties of Me phaa; 5. Six cases to examine; 5.1 Rhotic; 5.2 Alveolar affricate; 5.3 Palatal and velar nasal consonants; 5.4 Labiodental approximant; 5.5 Aspirated glottal stop; 5.6 Aspiration; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 5. Sociolinguistic factors in loanword prosody; 1. Stratification of Spanish loanwords in Zaniza Zapotec; 2. Mapping of Spanish stress to Zaniza Zapotec tones; 3. Typological parallels; 4. Discussion; References |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Languages in contact -- Central America
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Linguistic change -- Central America
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Indians of Central America -- Languages.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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Indians of Central America -- Languages
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Language and languages
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Languages in contact
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Linguistic change
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| SUBJECT |
Central America -- Languages.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004110
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| Subject |
Central America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dakin, Karen, editor
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Parodi, Claudia, editor
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Operstein, Natalie, editor
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| LC no. |
2017027588 |
| ISBN |
9789027265715 |
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9027265712 |
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