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<br /><hr /><b>Petición de contribuciones (evento): </b>Amerindian
Languages in Contact Situations: Spanish-American Perspectives<br
/>Oslo (Noruega), 5 de agosto de 2013<br />(1ª circular)<br />URL: <a
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/><b>Información de:</b> Natalie Operstein
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/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p>The linguistic situations in present-day
Spanish America have been shaped to a considerable extent by the
long-term contact among the indigenous languages and cultures, which
has resulted in profound consequences for the participating languages.
Although many of the possible lexical, phonological, and structural
commonalities among these languages have been explored in prior
literature (cf. Campbell, Kaufman, and Smith Stark 1986 and Smith
Stark 1994 for Mesoamerica), there are no more recent comparable
attempts at a study of the relevant areal traits. Detailed studies
placing the structural features of individual languages within their
areal contexts are also lacking, as are attempts to place the areal
linguistic adaptations within the wider context of human ecology, in
the sense proposed by Hill (1978), in sharp contrast with the amount
of attention that continues to be received by linguistic areas located
in other areas of the world, such as the Balkans, Ethiopia, or
Southeast Asia. <br /><br />Another important factor for the history
of contact in the area is that since the early sixteenth century, the
indigenous languages have been in close contact with Spanish. This
proximity has left a profound imprint on the languages, changing each
in a variety of ways that range from influences on lexicon and
phonology to impact on diverse levels of the languages’ morphology,
syntax, and discourse. In the process, regional Spanish, including the
national varieties of Latin American Spanish, has undergone a number
of changes as well. <br /><br />Finally, reconstruction of linguistic
and cultural histories of individual languages is greatly aided by the
study of loanword adaptations. By studying phonetic, structural, and
semantic changes in the borrowed words, it is possible to trace not
only the direction of borrowing and source languages but also the
relative chronology of borrowing (linguistic stratigraphy in the sense
of Andersen 2003) and the type and nature of past contacts. Inferences
drawn from a careful study of loanwords are especially important in
the case of unwritten languages and those that only recently have
begun to be written, including most languages of Hispano-America. <br
/><br />The proposed workshop will combine these research threads by
focusing on the diachronic aspects of language contact in Spanish
America. Its principal goals are to spark an interest in further study
of the possible areal traits, especially as they relate to the wider
issue of area-level human adaptations; to highlight the importance of
contact-induced changes observable in these areas for contact and
diachronic linguistics more generally; to contribute to the study of
linguistic stratigraphy; and to provide a context for a meaningful
dialogue between students of the indigenous languages and those of
Spanish. In addition, the workshop seeks to bring together scholars
from different language backgrounds, linguistic traditions, and
theoretical orientations with the aim of fostering collaborative
research on these complex areas.<br /> <br />References <br />-
Andersen, Henning, ed. 2003. Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies
in Stratigraphy. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. <br />-
Campbell, Lyle, Terrence Kaufman, and Thomas C. Smith-Stark. 1986.
Meso-America as a Linguistic Area. Language 62: 530-558.<br />- Hill,
Jane H. 1978. Language Contact Systems and Human Adaptations. Journal
of Anthropological Research 34: 1-26. <br />- Smith-Stark, Thomas C.
1994. Mesoamerican Calques. Carolyn J. MacKay and Verónica Vázquez,
eds. Investigaciones lingüísticas en Mesoamérica, 15-50. Mexico:
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.</p><br /><b>Área
temática:</b> Antropología lingüística, Lexicografía,
Lexicología, Lingüística histórica, Lingüística románica,
Variedades del español<br /><br /><b>Entidad Organizadora:
</b>University of Oslo<br /><br /><b>Contacto:</b> Natalie Operstein
<natacha@ucla.edu><br /><br /><b>Plazo de envío de
propuestas: </b>hasta el 1 de febrero de 2013<br
/><b>Notificación de contribuciones aceptadas: </b>1 de abril
de 2013<br /><br /><b>Lengua(s) oficial(es) del evento: </b>Spanish,
English<br /><br /><b>Nº de información:</b> 1<br /><br
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