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Title Amazonian Spanish : language contact and evolution / edited by Stephen Fafulas
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Series Issues in hispanic and lusophone linguistics (IHLL), 2213-3887 ; volume 23
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ; v. 23.
Contents Introduction : Spanish in the Amazon region : some preliminaries on its status and geographical extension / Stephen Fafulas -- Language loss and language gain in Amazonia : on newly emergent varieties of a national language / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Bilingualism, second language acquisition, and language contact : contrasts and shared processes / Kimberly Geeslin and Travis Evans-Sago -- Origins and dialectology studies of Spanish in America / Manuel Díaz-Campos and Ángel Milla-Muñoz -- Language documentation and revitalization as a feedback loop / Colleen M. Fitzgerald -- Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation / Scott Lamanna -- Clitics and argument marking in Shipibo-Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual speech / Liliana Sánchez and Elisabeth Mayer -- Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon : the case of Yagua Spanish / Stephen Fafulas and Ricard Viñas-de-Puig -- Interrogative intonation in monolingual Amazonian Spanish : the case of Spanish spoken in the cities of Pucallpa and Iquitos / Jose Elias-Ulloa -- Phonological processes in flux : variation in palatal lateral production in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Erin O'Rourke -- The many Spanishes of an Andean-Amazonian crossroads / Nicholas Q. Emlen -- Epilogue : insights for contact linguistics and future investigations of Spanish in the Amazon region / Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo and Stephen Fafulas
Summary "Amazonian Spanish: Language contact and evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being replaced by Spanish. This situation of language expansion, contact, and bilingualism is reshaping the sociolinguistic landscape of the Amazon by creating a number of Spanish varieties with innovative linguistic features that require closer scholarly attention. The current book documents this situation in detail. The chapters in this volume include work on distinct geographical regions of the Amazon, with primary data collected using different methodologies and language contact situations. The scholars in this volume specialize in an array of fields, including anthropological linguistics, bilingualism, language contact, dialectology, and language acquisition. Their work represents both formal and functional approaches to linguistics"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2020)
Subject Spanish language -- Variation -- Amazon River Region
Anthropological linguistics -- Amazon River Region
Sociolinguistics -- Amaron River Region
Anthropological linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Spanish language -- Variation
Amazon River Region
Form Electronic book
Author Fafulas, Stephen, editor.
LC no. 2020007373
ISBN 9789027261526
9027261520