This paper examines the status of two languages spoken in the Andean highlands of
Ecuador: Imbabura Quichua and Media Lengua. The latter is a mixed language consisting of …

In the Andean highlands of South America, the predominant indigenous language,
Quechua, frequently produces phonetic and morphosyntactic effects on regional varieties of …

In this paper we offer a panoramic overview of the development of Andean Spanish and
Andean Linguistics, from a theoretical point of view of language contact and universal …

Desde inicios del presente siglo, las circunstancias sociales y políticas han cambiado
favorablemente para las lenguas indígenas perua nas; por ello, se deduce que estas …

El presente trabajo describe, compara y analiza distintos valores evidenciales que adopta el
pretérito pluscuamperfecto en dos variedades de contacto en la Argentina y Paraguay: el …

The essay focuses on the linguistic contact between Quechua from Santiago del Estero and
Spanish, as well as sociolinguistic aspects about the current situation and the survival of this …

The Spanish benefactive verbal periphrasis dar 'give'+ gerund is unique to the Spanish
spoken in Ecuador and it seems to have emerged in the historical Ecuadorian context of …

This study focuses on bilingual speakers of Ecuadoran Quichua and the mixed language
known as Media Lengua, which consists of Quichua morphosyntactic frames with all content …

This chapter documents and explains the use of the possessive form vuestro/a 'your-PL'in
Cusco Spanish. This phenomenon, which has gone mostly unnoticed by scholars so far, is …

“Son quipos, unos memoriales o registros hechos de ramales, en que diversos nudos y
diversos colores, significan diversas cosas”(Acosta 1987 [1590]: 402, Cap. VIII)“En lugar de …