Spanish Diversity in the Amazon Dialect and Language Contact Perspectives
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2023
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ISBN
9789004435094
Publisert
2023
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Brill
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739 gr
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235 mm
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155 mm
Dybde
29 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Biografisk notat
Margarita Jara, Ph.D. (2006), University of Pittsburgh, is Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has published a monograph and several articles on variation and change, language contact, and language ideologies in Peruvian Amazonian and Limeño Spanish.Roberto Zariquiey, Ph.D. (2011). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at that University and Director of the Masters Program in Linguistics. He has published books and papers on Amazonian languages, including A Grammar of Kakataibo (Mouton de Gruyter 2018).
Pilar Valenzuela Ph.D. (2003), University of Oregon, is Professor at Chapman University in California. She has published monographs and articles (Panoan and Kawapanan languages, Peruvian Amazonian Spanish), worked in language documentation and revitalization, and authored pedagogical materials for indigenous schoolteachers.
Anna María Escobar, Ph.D. (1986), University at Buffalo-SUNY, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Publications include writings on the sociolinguistics, contact phenomena, and grammaticalization processes in Spanish-Quechua contact, and The Handbook of Contact Linguistics, coedited with Salikoko Mufwene (forthcoming).
This book, the first of its kind, is dedicated to different Spanish varieties spoken in the Amazonian regions of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. The contributions present diverse perspectives on theoretical, methodological, and descriptive characterizations of the study of Amazonian Spanish. It includes linguistic (phonological, syntactic, discourse-pragmatic), typological, ethnographic, sociolinguistic, and language contact approaches. The analyses of oral corpora include comparisons between monolingual and contact varieties of the speech of bilingual speakers who are native speakers of an indigenous Amazonian variety. This collection contributes to the fields of Hispanic and Amerindian Linguistics, and language contact.
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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.
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List of Figures, Tables, and Maps
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Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Spanish in Contact in the Amazon: Sociolinguistics
1 Introduction
Margarita Jara and Anna María Escobar
2 Ethnocultural Languages in the Study of Language Contact: The Case of Amazonian Spanish
Anna María Escobar
Part 2 Discourse-Pragmatics, Phonology, and Morphosyntax
3 Mirativity in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: An Account of the Discourse Marker Ya Vuelta
Margarita Jara and Pilar Valenzuela
4 Focus Marking in the Intonation of Peruvian Amazonian Spanish
Miguel 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
Jose Elias-Ulloa
6 Apuntes sobre la (no) Distinción de las Palatales Sonoras en el Castellano de Iquitos
Nila Vigil
7 Depalatalization and Delateralization in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Spanish /ʎ/ in Contact with Kichwa
Erin O’Rourke
8 Number and Possession in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: The Role of Animacy in the Emergence of Grammar
Rosa Vallejos
9 Feature Selection in Clitic Expression in Two Bilingual Amazonian Spanish Varieties
Elisabeth Mayer and Liliana Sánchez
Part 3 Lexicon, Morphology, and Corpus
10 Dialectal Affiliation of the Quechua Loanwords in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: A First Approximation
Roberto Zariquiey
11 Spanish-Quechua Symbiosis in Northern Expansion Varieties: Mixed Word Forms in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish and Colombian Inga
Pieter Muysken
12 El Componente del Subcorpus Oral ALEC como Muestra del Español Hablado en la Amazonía Colombiana
Diana Alejandra Hincapié Moreno, Wilmar Gentil López Barrios, Ruth Yanira Rubio López, Johnatan Estiven Bonilla Huérfano, y Julio Alexander Bernal Chávez
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789004435094
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
739 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Biografisk notat
Margarita Jara, Ph.D. (2006), University of Pittsburgh, is Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has published a monograph and several articles on variation and change, language contact, and language ideologies in Peruvian Amazonian and Limeño Spanish.Roberto Zariquiey, Ph.D. (2011). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at that University and Director of the Masters Program in Linguistics. He has published books and papers on Amazonian languages, including A Grammar of Kakataibo (Mouton de Gruyter 2018).
Pilar Valenzuela Ph.D. (2003), University of Oregon, is Professor at Chapman University in California. She has published monographs and articles (Panoan and Kawapanan languages, Peruvian Amazonian Spanish), worked in language documentation and revitalization, and authored pedagogical materials for indigenous schoolteachers.
Anna María Escobar, Ph.D. (1986), University at Buffalo-SUNY, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Publications include writings on the sociolinguistics, contact phenomena, and grammaticalization processes in Spanish-Quechua contact, and The Handbook of Contact Linguistics, coedited with Salikoko Mufwene (forthcoming).