Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact in the Americas

Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact in the Americas focuses on the structural results of contact between Spanish and Maya, Quechua, Guaraní, Portuguese, and English in the Americas.

Mark Waltermire is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at New Mexico State University, USA. Kathryn Bove is an Assistant Professor in the Languages and Linguistics Department at New Mexico State University, USA.

1. Simplification in bilinguals' parallel structures?: Spanish and English main-and-complement clauses2. Structural impact of Spanish on English in the Southwest 3. Quantification and mood selection: Monolingual vs. bilingual speakers of Yucatec Spanish 4. Spanish loan verbs in Yucatec Maya 5. Intervocalic /s/ voicing in the Andean Spanish of southern Peru 6. Variation in predicate constituent order in Southern Peruvian Quechua 7. Guaraní influence on Spanish in contact situations: A comparison between Paraguayan and Correntino Spanish 8. A variationist account of differential object marking as a contact feature in Paraguayan Guaraní 9. The influence of Portuguese on the realization of intervocalic /bd-/ in Border Uruguayan Spanish 10. Code-mixing as a salient marker of identity on the Brazilian-Uruguayan border