Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond Hardback
Edited by Karen (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) Dakin, Claudia (University of California, Los Angeles) Parodi, Natalie (California State University, Fullerton) Operstein
Part of the Studies in Language Companion Series series
Hardback
Description
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:433 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:15/06/2017
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- ISBN:9789027259509
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:433 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:15/06/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027259509
