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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures, Tables, and Maps Abbreviations 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 Index
