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Convergence as the driving force of typological change in Nahuatl

dc.abstract.enThis paper is based on extensive team research focusing on the reconstruction of the history of contact-induced change in Nahuatl from the first encounter with Spanish until the present day, taking into account both peripheral and central varieties. We trace the long-term trajectories of several morphosyntactic features that mark typological change: animacy as a grammatical category; the relational word as a lexical category; the formal distinction between comitative and instrumental markers; existential predicative possession; and relatively free word order. We argue that key innovations in Nahuatl during the colonial period are either borrowed from Spanish or begin as minor internal patterns that gradually become dominant due to similarity with an element of Spanish structure, and that these two processes have driven typological change in the language.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorSullivan, John
dc.contributor.authorOlko, Justyna
dc.contributor.authorBorges, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T20:47:49Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T20:47:49Z
dc.date.copyright2021-06-23
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.openaccess34
dc.description.accesstimeAFTER_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number3
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volume71
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/STUF-2018-0018
dc.identifier.issn0942-2919
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/103723
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/329972286_Convergence_as_the_driving_force_of_typological_change_in_Nahuatl
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationlinguistics
dc.relation.ispartofSprachtypologie und Universalienforschung - STUF
dc.relation.pages467-507
dc.rightsOther
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enNahuatl, Spanish, language contact, convergence, typological change
dc.titleConvergence as the driving force of typological change in Nahuatl
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication