Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Abbreviations and acronyms xiii
6. Dedication xv
7. Chapter 1. Language contact in Mesoamerica and beyond 1
8. Chapter 2. Spanish influence in two Tepehua languages 29
9. Chapter 3. Spanish infinitives borrowed into Zapotec light verb constructions 55
10. Chapter 4. The effect of external factors on the perception of sounds in Meꞌphaa 81
11. Chapter 5. Sociolinguistic factors in loanword prosody 105
12. Chapter 6. Some grammatical characteristics of the Spanish spoken by Lacandón and Mazahua bilinguals 125
13. Chapter 7. Spanish loanwords in Amerindian languages and their implications for the reconstruction of the pronunciation of Spanish in Mesoamerica 155
14. Chapter 8. Loanword evidence for dialect mixing in colonial American Spanish 171
15. Chapter 9. The impact of language contact in Nahuatl couplets 187
16. Chapter 10. Spanish–Huastec (Mayan) 16th-century language contact attested in the Doctrina Christiana en la lengua guasteca by Friar Juan de la Cruz, 1571 209
17. Chapter 11. Historical review of loans in Chichimec (c.1767–2012) 229
18. Chapter 12. Nahuatl L2 texts from Northern Nueva Galicia 237
19. Chapter 13. Western and Central Nahua dialects 263
20. Chapter 14. Loanwords in Apachean from indigenous languages of the Southwest 301
21. Chapter 15. Language contact across the Andes 319
22. Chapter 16. The Mesoamerican linguistic area revisited 335
23. Chapter 17. Language diversity, contact and change in the Americas 355
24. Chapter 18. Spanish in the Americas 385
25. Index of subjects and terms 419
26. Index of authors 425
27. Index of place, person and ethnic group names 427
28. Index of languages 429