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- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps Volume I
- Figures Volume I
- Tables Volume I
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics
- Part Two Linguistic Areas
- 7 The Balkans
- 8 The Amazon Basin: Linguistic Areas and Language Contact
- 9 Migration and Trade as Drivers of Language Spread and Contact in Indigenous Latin America
- 10 Language Contact in South Asia
- Part Three Language Spread
- Part Four Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages
- Part Five Language Diasporas
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
9 - Migration and Trade as Drivers of Language Spread and Contact in Indigenous Latin America
from Part Two - Linguistic Areas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps Volume I
- Figures Volume I
- Tables Volume I
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics
- Part Two Linguistic Areas
- 7 The Balkans
- 8 The Amazon Basin: Linguistic Areas and Language Contact
- 9 Migration and Trade as Drivers of Language Spread and Contact in Indigenous Latin America
- 10 Language Contact in South Asia
- Part Three Language Spread
- Part Four Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages
- Part Five Language Diasporas
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
This chapter discusses how migration and trade as historical sociocultural processes have contributed to language spread and language contact situations in Latin America. It explores how language contact situations in Latin America have been dynamically created and changed by the movement of peoples and exchange of things and ideas through space and time, focusing on three kinds of linguistic outcomes: language spread, the emergence of multilingualism, and the development of contact languages. The discussion is framed by an interdisciplinary framework, focusing on the internal and external histories of indigenous languages of Latin America, from the initial peopling of the New World up to contemporary situations of language contact.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Language ContactVolume 1: Population Movement and Language Change, pp. 261 - 298Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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