Lexically driven patterns of contact in alignment systems of languages of the northern Upper Amazon
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- dc.contributor.author van Gijn, Rik
- dc.contributor.author Case, Justin
- dc.contributor.author Bruil, Martine
- dc.contributor.author Claassen, Simon A.
- dc.contributor.author Grzech, Karolina
- dc.contributor.author Julmi, Nora
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-05-06T06:12:34Z
- dc.date.available 2025-05-06T06:12:34Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description.abstract Despite ample attention in the literature for alignment patterns and case frames more generally, we know very little about how these elements of grammar spread from one language to another in a contact situation. Achieving a better understanding of this will help explain areal patterns in alignment and grammatical relation marking. In this contribution, we zoom in on a contact situation in the foothills of North-West Amazon, where languages of the Quechuan and Tukanoan families are in contact, and where previous authors have suggested that grammatical relation marking shows many potential contact effects. We find that, despite the absence of loanwords, abstract lexico-grammatical information associated with individual lexical items may spread from one language to another, especially within the class of sensation predicates. These can be characterized as lexically driven diffusion patterns, without formal borrowing, consistent with an overall characterization of the area’s sociolinguistics as loanword-avoiding.en
- dc.description.sponsorship The work was supported by the European Research Council who funded Rik van Gijn’s ERC Consolidator project ‘South American Population History Revisited’, under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 818854 - SAPPHIRE). Karolina Grzech gratefully acknowledges the support of the Endangered Languages Documentation Project (ELDP, grant numbers IG0166 and IPF0301) and Vetenskapsrådet (Grant ID: 2020-01581). Finally, we would like to thank the Center for Indigenous America Studies, which funded Martine Bruil’s elicitation sessions with Alma Inkary on Cuzco Quechua.en
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- dc.identifier.citation van Gijn R, Case J, Bruil M, Claassen SA, Grzech K, Julmi N. Lexically driven patterns of contact in alignment systems of languages of the northern Upper Amazon. Open Linguist. 2023 Mar 9;9(1):1-40. DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0224
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0224
- dc.identifier.issn 2300-9969
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70299
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher De Gruyter
- dc.relation.ispartof Open Linguistics. 2023 Mar 9;9(1):1-40
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/818854
- dc.rights © 2023 the author(s), published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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- dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- dc.subject.keyword North-west Amazonen
- dc.subject.keyword Verb classesen
- dc.subject.keyword Case framesen
- dc.subject.keyword Alignmenten
- dc.subject.keyword Quechuanen
- dc.subject.keyword Tukanoanen
- dc.subject.keyword Language contacten
- dc.title Lexically driven patterns of contact in alignment systems of languages of the northern Upper Amazonen
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