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• Editor(s): Stephen Fafulas
• Format: PDF, EPUB
• Publication Date July 2020
• e-Book ISBN: 9789027261526
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.23

Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being replaced by Spanish. This situation of language expansion, contact, and bilingualism is reshaping the sociolinguistic landscape of the Amazon by creating a number of Spanish varieties with innovative linguistic features that require closer scholarly attention. The current book documents this situation in detail. The chapters in this volume include work on distinct geographical regions of the Amazon, with primary data collected using different methodologies and language contact situations. The scholars in this volume specialize in an array of fields, including anthropological linguistics, bilingualism, language contact, dialectology, and language acquisition. Their work represents both formal and functional approaches to linguistics.

Table of Contents

• Introduction. Spanish in the Amazon region: Some preliminaries on its status and geographical extension (Stephen Fafulas)
• Chapter 1. Language loss and language gain in Amazonia: On newly emergent varieties of a national language (Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald)
• Chapter 2. Bilingualism, second language acquisition, and language contact: Contrasts and shared processes (Kimberly L. Geeslin and Travis Evans-Sago)
• Chapter 3. Origins and dialectology studies of Spanish in America (Manuel Díaz-Campos and Ángel Milla-Muñoz)
• Chapter 4. Language documentation and revitalization as a feedback loop (Colleen M. Fitzgerald)
• Chapter 5. Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation (Scott Lamanna)
• Chapter 6. Clitics and argument marking in Shipibo- Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual speech (Liliana Sánchez and Elisabeth Mayer)
• Chapter 7. Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon: The case of Yagua Spanish (Stephen Fafulas and Ricard Viñas-de-Puig)
• Chapter 8. Interrogative intonation in monolingual Amazonian Spanish: The case of Spanish spoken in the cities of Pucallpa and Iquitos (Jose Alberto Elias-Ulloa)
• Chapter 9. Phonological processes in flux: Variation in palatal lateral production in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Erin O’Rourke)
• Chapter 10. The many Spanishes of an Andean-Amazonian crossroads (Nicholas Q. Emlen)
• Epilogue. Insights for contact linguistics and future investigations of Spanish in the Amazon region (Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo and Stephen Fafulas)

Recent talk on Spanish in MS!

Click Here to Watch Mexissippi: Spanish in the South | Stephen Fafulas | TEDxUniversityofMississippi

Feature article in Cornerstone magazine on Dual-Language Immersion (DLI) research initiative in regional schools:

Cornerstone Article. Fafulas

Attended another wonderful Second Language Research Forum, hosted by Georgia State University.

Two paper presentations:

1. Fafulas, Stephen. “The Aspect Hypothesis in L2 Spanish: New Data from the Present Progressive.” Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). Atlanta, Georgia. October 31.

2. Killam, Jason, Stephen Fafulas, and Kimberly Geeslin. “Complex Syntax in L2 Spanish: Simultaneous Narrations of the Pear Stories Film.” Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). Atlanta, Georgia. October 31.

L2

Had a great time at this year’s Spanish in the US conference in NYC!

25th Conference on Spanish in the United States & 10th Spanish in Contact with Other Languages

The City College of New York (CUNY)

We received invaluable feedback and exciting opportunities for our panel:

“Spanishes in the Carolinas”

Viñas de Puig, Ricard and Stephen Fafulas. “The TAM paradigm in Eastern North Carolina Spanish.” 25th Conference on Spanish in the United States (SiUS). New York City, New York. March 27.

We are pleased to announce that SLINKI, Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina, will be hosted at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, on February 7, 2015. We invite abstracts for 20-minute presentations and for poster presentations, in any area related to Spanish Linguistics. While the focus of the conference is on work by researchers in North Carolina, we welcome all submissions. Sessions will be held throughout the day and will not be scheduled concurrently unless necessitated by the number of presenters. The poster session will be held during the lunch break.

Deadline for abstract submission is Sunday, November 23, 2014.

Enjoyed a wonderfully hosted HLS at Purdue University this past weekend!

I was happy to receive excellent feedback on both papers related to my ongoing work on Spanish in contact with Indigenous Languages in the Peruvian Amazon. Thank you to both of my co-authors, and colleagues who attended these talks.

• Fafulas, Stephen and Ricard Viñas de Puig. “Pan-Amazonian Spanish: The case of Yagua Spanish.” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). West Lafayette, Indiana. November 15.

• Fafulas, Stephen and Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo. “Double possession in Amazonian Spanish.” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). West Lafayette, Indiana. November 16.

I attended the 33^rd annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2014) at the University of South Carolina.

I was impressed with the organization of the event, the presentations, and the campus!

Thank you to all who attended these talks and offered invaluable feedback:

–Fafulas, Stephen, Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, and Erin O’Rourke. “Less common paths of acquisition: Language contact, development and bilingualism in the Peruvian Amazon.” 33rd Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). Columbia, South Carolina. October 24.

–Geeslin, Kimberly and Stephen Fafulas. “Progressive aspect marking in second language Spanish: Multiple dialects and variability in the input.” 33rd Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). Columbia, South Carolina. October 24.

As part of my research in the Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy (EOSA) at ECU I have assisted in the creation of a learning community that analyzes dual-immersion/bilingual education programs. This is part of my mission as a faculty member of ECU who aims to embrace the growing needs of the Hispanic population in our region and deepen relationships between students, schools, and community partners. I am collaborating with Dr. Marjorie Ringler, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, along with faculty in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

As part of this research, EOSA funded a visit from Dr. Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Professor of Child & Adolescent Development from San Jose State University, May 28-30, 2014. We were thrilled to receive one of the leading authorities in the field of child bilingual education and dual-language programs.

Dr. Kathryn Lindholm-Leary is currently Professor Emerita of Child and Adolescent Development at San Jose State University. She has worked with two-way immersion and other foreign language and bilingual programs for the past 30 years and during that time has evaluated over 40 programs and helped to establish programs in over 60 school districts in 15 states. Dr. Lindholm-Leary regularly consults with various state and local departments of education. She has authored or co-authored four books and numerous chapters and journal articles on the topics of dual language education and child bilingualism. She has presented her findings at over 175 local, state, national and international conferences.

See her three day schedule here:

May 28 May 28.Agenda.Dr.Lindholm-Leary.EOSA.2014

May 29 May 29.Agenda.Dr.Lindholm-Leary.EOSA.2014

May 30 May 30.Agenda.Dr.Lindholm-Leary.EOSA.2014

Really enjoyed meeting new colleagues at the 81st SECOL meeting hosted by Coastal Carolina University!

(I) Co-presented with Mario Becerra, an undergraduate student who has been working in the SoCIOLing Lab. He did a phenomenal job! Our talk “Reconstructing the Past with the Future: An Analysis of Aspect and Language Contact in an Emerging Hispanic Community in Eastern North Carolina” is part of an ongoing project with Dr. Ricard Viñas-de-Puig and student researcher Briceida Rodríguez which analyses Spanish in rural NC (Pitt County).

(II) Received excellent feedback on my talk “Cross-linguistic, learner, and individual differences in the expression of progressive aspect”.