Quichua-Spanish Language Contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: Revisiting Media Lengua Syncretic Language Practices

• Main Author: Shappeck, Marco
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest LLC 2011
• Subjects: American Indian Languages; Basic Vocabulary; Bilingualism; Code Switching (Language); Ethnography; Form Classes (Languages); Grammar; Ideology; Language Research; Linguistic Borrowing; Linguistic Theory; Sentences; Spanish; Speech Communication; Vocabulary

The purpose of the current thesis is to develop a better understanding of the interaction between Spanish and Quichua in the Salcedo region and provide more information for the processes that might have given rise to Media Lengua, a "mixed" language comprised of a Quichua grammar and Spani...