Some linguistic structures found in Amazonian Spanish tend to be associated by and large
with a rural variety spoken by people frequently depicted as indigenous. However, direct …

Are our concepts from prosodic typology, like word stress, pitch accent, head-/edge-
prominence, really that tightly linked to individual languages? How are meanings often …

Although there are thousands of cities on the planet, only a few have emerged as centers for
globalizing tendencies. By most definitions, New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris …

This chapter reviews sociolinguistic research on South America's Indigenous speech
communities during the past 15 years. We focus on research findings from the Quechua …

Throughout the southern Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche and Quintana Roo, as well
as in northern Belize, Spanish is in contact with an indigenous language, Yucatec Maya …

Aims and objectives: This study explores the assertion that bilingual mixed languages are
only diachronically stable if they are not spoken together with both of the contributing source …

Dialectología hispánica/The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Dialectology es una obra
coral que presenta las últimas investigaciones sobre las variedades actuales de la lengua …

This chapter examines the Spanish spoken in Santiago, Chile, and some of the effects that
globalization, social dynamics, migration, and ethnicity have had on it. It contextualizes …

Antes de la invasión europea en los Andes, las lenguas originarias tuvieron sus procesos
de repliegue o expansión, de contacto y transformación. A partir del siglo XVI, tales …

This paper offers some reflections on the study of morphology–broadly speaking,'word
formation'–as a participants' resource in social interaction. I begin by calling attention to …