Grammatical borrowing in Purepecha

Claudine Chamoreau (1)

1 CELIA - Centre d'Études des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique

In the present chapter, I will concentrate on the influence of Spanish contact on Purepecha, specifically, on the grammatical structure. related to this contact are found in the areas of phonology, morphological typology, nominal and verbal structures, other parts of speech, constituent order, and syntax. This paper deals with the dialect of Jaracuaro (denoted Jr), a peninsula in Lake Patzcuaro, however, when necessary, I use data from other varieties. Purepecha varieties are more or less mutually intelligible, nevertheless, great sociolinguistic differences exist between them (Chamoreau 2005). Most of the data considered for this paper are the result of my own field research projects carried out over a period of fifteen years.

Mots clés: Grammatical borrowing; calque; replica; purepecha; syntax; contact

Domaines: Linguistique

Claudine Chamoreau. Grammatical borrowing in Purepecha. Yaron Matras, Jeanette Sakel. Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective, Mouton de Gruyter, pp.465-480, 2007. ⟨halshs-00293374⟩