This dissertation is fundamentally about the place of thematic roles in the architecture of the
grammar. One contemporary viewpoint takes thematic roles to be formal features present in …

This volume explores the complex relationship between primary agreement by means of
object marking or differential object marking (DOM), and secondary agreement through …

In this essay we examine the notions of language contact phenomena such as borrowing,
codeswitching, codemixing, codemeshing, and translanguaging. We also explore the …

Abstract Indigenous people across South America tend to be multilingual, and South
American languages exhibit historical contact effects that suggest multilingualism has long …

This book addresses the hypothesis that typological similarity–in particular, common genetic
inheritance–influences the outcome of language contact. In this chapter, we challenge the …

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 …

Recent years have seen a surge in work on Person Hierarchy Effects (Béjar and Rezac
2009; Georgi 2011; Lochbihler 2009; Nevins 2007, 2011; Oxford 2014; Walkow 2009; …

Abstract Indirect Evidentiality in Aymara and La Paz Spanish. A semantic-pragmatic study of
oral texts This dissertation investigates the expression of the indirect evidential subdomain …

El presente trabajo es un estudio empírico de las unidades de relación de tipo causal
empleadas en el español y el quechua hablados en la región de Cochabamba, Bolivia. El …

Spanish is in contact with many languages, in diverse regions, a situation that has been
studied in depth from numerous perspectives (see Díaz-Campos 2011). Nonetheless …