Grammatical characteristics of Spanish in contact with teːnek or Huastec (Mayan)

The aim of this paper is to describe some grammatical features observed in the Spanish variant spoken by Teːnek bilinguals who speak Spanish as a second language. I argue that these features are of presumably Teːnek origin as the grammatical forms generated are remarkably divergent from standard Spa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Melendez Guadarrama, Lucero
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Anales de Antropología
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/79369
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/79369
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:español-teːnek
español de contacto
contacto lingüístico
bilingüismo
transferencias lingüísticas
Spanish-teːnek
linguistic contact
bilingualism
linguistic transfers
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Sumario:The aim of this paper is to describe some grammatical features observed in the Spanish variant spoken by Teːnek bilinguals who speak Spanish as a second language. I argue that these features are of presumably Teːnek origin as the grammatical forms generated are remarkably divergent from standard Spanish and instead reflect features in the grammar and lexicon of the former. The features described here are explained as linguistic transfers from Teːnek to Spanish, developed from the prolonged linguistic contact that has occurred between the speakers of these two languages in the Huasteca region from the beginning of the 16th century to the present day.