Spanish in Contact with South-American Languages, with Special Emphasis on Andean and Paraguayan Spanish

Zúñiga, Fernando (2019). Spanish in Contact with South-American Languages, with Special Emphasis on Andean and Paraguayan Spanish. In: Aranoff, Mark (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.425

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The effect of indigenous languages of South America on Spanish is strongest in the lexicon (especially with toponyms, zoonyms, and phytonyms) and identifiable, but much more modest, in phonetics/phonology (e.g., vowel variability and reduction and nasalization) and morphosyntax (e.g., the different use of selected verb forms and constituent order). The phenomena called Media Lengua and Yopará differ from this picture in that the former roughly consists of a Spanish lexicon combined with Quechua grammar, while the latter is a fluid Guaraní-based system with numerous borrowings from Spanish. The effects of contact are socially and areally variable, with low-prestige, typically rural, varieties of South American Spanish showing the most significant systemic impact, while high-prestige, typically urban, varieties (including the national standards) show little more than lexical borrowings in the semantic fields mentioned. This result is hardly surprising, due to historical/sociolinguistic factors (which often led to situations of dominance and language shift) and to the typological dissimilarities between Spanish and the indigenous languages (which typically hinders borrowing, especially of morphological elements).

Item Type:	Book Section (Encyclopedia Article)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics
UniBE Contributor:	Zúñiga, Fernando
Subjects:	400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 460 Spanish & Portuguese languages 400 Language > 490 Other languages
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Language:	English
Submitter:	Fernando Zúñiga
Date Deposited:	28 Jun 2019 15:54
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:27
Publisher DOI:	10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.425
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/129408