Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution
Edited by Stephen Fafulas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 23] 2020. viii, 303 pp.
Stephen Fafulas
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephen Fafulas plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 Chapter 3. The second language acquisition of variation in adulthood and language change Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.), pp. 64–83 | Chapter
Research on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation is grounded in an understanding of sociohistorical linguistics. The patterns attested in language change provide a foundation for understanding the language of second language learners. This chapter provides an overview of… read more
2023 Chapter 7. Short-term study abroad and dialect acquisition: An analysis of the personal pronoun ustedes with second person plural verb and indirect object pronoun constructions by L2 learners of Spanish in Andalucía Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish, Zahler, Sara L., Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford (eds.), pp. 204–228 | Chapter
The growth in the popularity of studying abroad has led to the proliferation of programs of various lengths, among which is the short-term study abroad (SA), typically lasting around one month. Much needed investigation remains regarding the effectiveness of short-term SA programs, and this… read more
2022 Chapter 7. Linguistic variation and second language Spanish: A study of progressive and habitual marking by English-speaking learners Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 159–198 | Chapter
Research on progressive and habitual aspectual marking in Spanish provides a productive test case for second language variation research. In Spanish, two forms can be used to reference ongoing action at speech time (simple present and present progressive) while English predominantly makes use of… read more
2020 Introduction. Spanish in the Amazon region: Some preliminaries on its status and geographical extension Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution, Fafulas, Stephen (ed.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
This opening chapter offers the reader an introduction to Spanish in the Amazon. The vast linguistic diversity found in this region of South America has received much scholarly interest. However, the Spanish varieties that have resulted from language contact and a myriad of sociolinguistic… read more
2020 Chapter 7. Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon: The case of Yagua Spanish Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution, Fafulas, Stephen (ed.), pp. 155–190 | Chapter
We analyze a handful of morphosyntactic features of Yagua Spanish (YS), a contact variety of Spanish spoken in the Amazon. Our results, from sociolinguistic interviews and film narrations conducted with 10 YS speakers from Comandancia, located along Peru’s Orosa River, suggest that YS is… read more
2020 Chapter 6. Intervocalic phonemic stop realization in Amazonian Peru: The case of Yagua Spanish Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, Rao, Rajiv (ed.), pp. 141–162 | Chapter
This study explores intervocalic phonemic stop realization in Spanish by monolingual and bilingual speakers in the Peruvian Amazon. We performed an acoustic analysis of sociolinguistic interviews conducted in Spanish with Spanish monolinguals and Yagua-Spanish bilinguals. We focus on… read more
2020 Epilogue. Insights for contact linguistics and future investigations of Spanish in the Amazon region Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution, Fafulas, Stephen (ed.), pp. 287–298 | Chapter
This closing chapter summarizes the main contributions of this volume and highlights areas of interest for scholars investigating Spanish in the Amazon region. We aim to show what can be gained from the study of Spanish in the Amazon, including insights for general linguistic theory, syntactic… read more
2018 Chapter 10. Stable variation or change in progress? A sociolinguistic analysis of pa(ra) in the Spanish of Venezuela Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across space and time, King, Jeremy and Sandro Sessarego (eds.), pp. 223–245 | Chapter
Sociolinguistic analyses of pa(ra) “for” have found that both linguistic and social factors play a significant role in speaker use of the reduced (pa’) and full (para) forms (e.g., Bentivoglio et al. 2005). However, no study to date has analyzed the extent to which production of these forms is most… read more
2016 Review of Enrique-Arias, Gutiérrez, Landa & Ocampo (2014): Verba Spanish in Context 13:1, pp. 159–162 | Review
2016 Double possession in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence, Cuza, Alejandro, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson (eds.), pp. 335–354 | Article
In this study we analyze the phenomenon known as “double possession” in monolingual and bilingual Spanish communities located in the Peruvian Amazon. Our data come from sociolinguistic interviews conducted with bilingual Bora-Spanish speakers and monolingual Iquitos Spanish speakers. From a… read more
2012 Nuevas perspectivas sobre la variación de las formas presente simple y presente progresivo en español y en inglés Spanish in Context 9:1, pp. 58–87 | Article
Se presenta un análisis de la variación gramatical de las formas presente simple y presente progresivo en el español monolingüe y bilingüe. Por medio de una encuesta contextualizada y codificada según el aspecto léxico del verbo y el valor semántico de los adverbios de tiempo, se muestran los… read more