Buch, Englisch, Band 05, 120 Seiten
A study of language change in Belizean Mopan due to Spanish and English culture and language contact
Buch, Englisch, Band 05, 120 Seiten
Reihe: LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics
ISBN: 978-3-89586-103-1
Verlag: LINCOM
In the section on phonological interferences a significant finding concerns a sound change in exclusively Spanish loanwords, which indicates that Mopan speakers possess some unconscious awareness of the foreign status of part of their lexicon. A large portion of the research was devoted to the question of how Mopan speakers incorporated the different borrowed parts of speech into the Mopan linguistic structure. Among the interesting characteristics of the grammatical interference analysis are the neutral status of nouns, the incorporation of loanverbs into an agentive subclass of the intransitive verb category, the native character of comparative constructions, the doublet constructions in the use of discourse markers.