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Chapter 3. Origins and dialectology studies of Spanish in America

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Abstract

This chapter offers a general perspective concerning the origins of American Spanish. This introductory chapter broadly includes the most relevant aspects that characterize Spanish varieties in South America. The first part reviews the influence of the settlers in the formation of Spanish in America. Additionally, contact situations with indigenous languages as well as the impact of African heritage are also investigated. The second part is dedicated to a description of the major dialectal areas in South America and their linguistic features. Departing from prior studies, the chapter depicts the most relevant phonetic and morphosyntactic phenomena. The chapter ends with some concluding remarks about the roots of Spanish in America and its independent developments in different regions of South America.

Abstract

This chapter offers a general perspective concerning the origins of American Spanish. This introductory chapter broadly includes the most relevant aspects that characterize Spanish varieties in South America. The first part reviews the influence of the settlers in the formation of Spanish in America. Additionally, contact situations with indigenous languages as well as the impact of African heritage are also investigated. The second part is dedicated to a description of the major dialectal areas in South America and their linguistic features. Departing from prior studies, the chapter depicts the most relevant phonetic and morphosyntactic phenomena. The chapter ends with some concluding remarks about the roots of Spanish in America and its independent developments in different regions of South America.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction. Spanish in the Amazon region 1
  5. Chapter 1. Language loss and language gain in Amazonia 7
  6. Chapter 2. Bilingualism, second language acquisition, and language contact 35
  7. Chapter 3. Origins and dialectology studies of Spanish in America 57
  8. Chapter 4. Language documentation and revitalization as a feedback loop 81
  9. Chapter 5. Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation 105
  10. Chapter 6. Clitics and argument marking in Shipibo-Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual speech 127
  11. Chapter 7. Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon 155
  12. Chapter 8. Interrogative intonation in monolingual Amazonian Spanish 191
  13. Chapter 9. Phonological processes in flux 223
  14. Chapter 10. The many Spanishes of an Andean-Amazonian crossroads 259
  15. Epilogue. Insights for contact linguistics and future investigations of Spanish in the Amazon region 287
  16. Index 299
Amazonian Spanish
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.23.03dia

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction. Spanish in the Amazon region 1
  5. Chapter 1. Language loss and language gain in Amazonia 7
  6. Chapter 2. Bilingualism, second language acquisition, and language contact 35
  7. Chapter 3. Origins and dialectology studies of Spanish in America 57
  8. Chapter 4. Language documentation and revitalization as a feedback loop 81
  9. Chapter 5. Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation 105
  10. Chapter 6. Clitics and argument marking in Shipibo-Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual speech 127
  11. Chapter 7. Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon 155
  12. Chapter 8. Interrogative intonation in monolingual Amazonian Spanish 191
  13. Chapter 9. Phonological processes in flux 223
  14. Chapter 10. The many Spanishes of an Andean-Amazonian crossroads 259
  15. Epilogue. Insights for contact linguistics and future investigations of Spanish in the Amazon region 287
  16. Index 299
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