1st Edition

Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact in the Americas

Edited By Mark Waltermire, Kathryn Bove Copyright 2023
232 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact in the Americas focuses on the structural results of contact between Spanish and Maya, Quechua, Guaraní, Portuguese, and English in the Americas. This edited volume explores the various ways in which these languages affect the linguistic structure of Spanish in situations of language contact, and also how Spanish impacts their... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Mark Waltermire and Kathryn Bove

1. Simplification in bilinguals' parallel structures? Spanish and English main-and-complement clauses

Dora LaCasse and Rena Torres Cacoullos

2. Structural impact of Spanish on English in the Southwest

Erik R. Thomas

3. Quantification and mood selection: Monolingual vs. bilingual speakers of Yucatec Spanish

Kathryn Bove

4. Spanish loan verbs in Yucatec Maya

Grant Armstrong

5. Intervocalic /s/ voicing in the Andean Spanish of southern Peru

Carol A. Klee, Brandon M.A. Rogers, Mónica de la Fuente Iglesias, and James Ramsburg

6. Variation in predicate constituent order in Southern Peruvian Quechua

Sarah Hubbel

7. Guaraní influence on Spanish in contact situations: A comparison between Paraguayan and Correntino Spanish

Bruno Estigarribia, Justin Pinta, and Ernesto Luis López Almada

8. A variationist account of differential object marking as a contact feature in Paraguayan Guaraní

Josefina Bittar

9. The influence of Portuguese on the realization of intervocalic /bdɡ/ in Border Uruguayan Spanish

Mark Waltermire

10. Code-mixing as a salient marker of identity on the Brazilian–Uruguayan border

Tatiana Ribeiro do Amaral

 

Biography

Mark Waltermire is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at New Mexico State University, USA.
Kathryn Bove is an Assistant Professor in the Languages and Linguistics Department at New Mexico State University, USA.