The Contact Diffusion of Linguistic Practices:Reference Frames in Mesoamerica

Jürgen Bohnemeyer; Katharine T. Donelson; Randi E. Moore; Elena Benedicto; Alyson Eggleston; Carolyn K. O'Meara; Gabriela Pérez Báez; Alejandra Capistrán Garza; Néstor Hernández Green; María De Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez; Samuel Herrera Castro; Enrique Palancar; Gilles Polian; Rodrigo Romero Méndez

doi:10.1163/22105832-00502002

The Contact Diffusion of Linguistic Practices:Reference Frames in Mesoamerica

Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Katharine T. Donelson, Randi E. Moore, Elena Benedicto, Alyson Eggleston, Carolyn K. O'Meara, Gabriela Pérez Báez, Alejandra Capistrán Garza, Néstor Hernández Green, María De Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez, Samuel Herrera Castro, Enrique Palancar, Gilles Polian, Rodrigo Romero Méndez

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We examine the extent to which practices of language use may be diffused through language contact and areally shared, using data on spatial reference frame use by speakers of eight indigenous languages from in and around the Mesoamerican linguistic area and three varieties of Spanish. Regression models show that the frequency of L2-Spanish use by speakers of the indigenous languages predicts the use of relative reference frames in the L1 even when literacy and education levels are accounted for. A significant difference in frame use between the Mesoamerican and non-Mesoamerican indigenous languages further supports the contact diffusion analysis.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	169-201
Number of pages	33
Journal	Language Dynamics and Change
Volume	5
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00502002
State	Published - 2015

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Bohnemeyer, J., Donelson, K. T., Moore, R. E., Benedicto, E., Eggleston, A., O'Meara, C. K., Báez, G. P., Garza, A. C., Green, N. H., De Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez, M., Castro, S. H., Palancar, E., Polian, G., & Méndez, R. R. (2015). The Contact Diffusion of Linguistic Practices:Reference Frames in Mesoamerica. Language Dynamics and Change, 5(2), 169-201. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00502002

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