Spanish Diversity in the Amazon

Margarita Jara, Ph.D. (2006), University of Pittsburgh, is Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has published a monograph and several articles on variation and change, language contact, and language ideologies in Peruvian Amazonian and Limeño Spanish.Roberto Zariquiey, Ph.D. (2011). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at that University and Director of the Masters Program in Linguistics. He has published books and papers on Amazonian languages, including A Grammar of Kakataibo (Mouton de Gruyter 2018).Pilar Valenzuela Ph.D. (2003), University of Oregon, is Professor at Chapman University in California. She has published monographs and articles (Panoan and Kawapanan languages, Peruvian Amazonian Spanish), worked in language documentation and revitalization, and authored pedagogical materials for indigenous schoolteachers.Anna María Escobar, Ph.D. (1986), University at Buffalo-SUNY, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Publications include writings on the sociolinguistics, contact phenomena, and grammaticalization processes in Spanish-Quechua contact, and The Handbook of Contact Linguistics, coedited with Salikoko Mufwene (forthcoming).

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures, Tables, and MapsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsPart 1 Spanish in Contact in the Amazon: Sociolinguistics1 IntroductionMargarita Jara and Anna María Escobar2 Ethnocultural Languages in the Study of Language Contact: The Case of Amazonian SpanishAnna María EscobarPart 2 Discourse-Pragmatics, Phonology, and Morphosyntax3 Mirativity in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: An Account of the Discourse Marker Ya VueltaMargarita Jara and Pilar Valenzuela4 Focus Marking in the Intonation of Peruvian Amazonian SpanishMiguel García5 Tonal Units and Their Phonological Behavior in Amazonian Spanish from La Merced (Peru): An Exploration of the Intonational Patterns of Declarative and Interrogative SentencesJose Elias-Ulloa6 Apuntes sobre la (no) Distinción de las Palatales Sonoras en el Castellano de IquitosNila Vigil7 Depalatalization and Delateralization in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Spanish /ʎ/ in Contact with KichwaErin O’Rourke8 Number and Possession in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: The Role of Animacy in the Emergence of GrammarRosa Vallejos9 Feature Selection in Clitic Expression in Two Bilingual Amazonian Spanish VarietiesElisabeth Mayer and Liliana SánchezPart 3 Lexicon, Morphology, and Corpus10 Dialectal Affiliation of the Quechua Loanwords in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: A First ApproximationRoberto Zariquiey11 Spanish-Quechua Symbiosis in Northern Expansion Varieties: Mixed Word Forms in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish and Colombian IngaPieter Muysken12 El Componente del Subcorpus Oral ALEC como Muestra del Español Hablado en la Amazonía ColombianaDiana Alejandra Hincapié Moreno, Wilmar Gentil López Barrios, Ruth Yanira Rubio López, Johnatan Estiven Bonilla Huérfano, y Julio Alexander Bernal ChávezIndex