Title: Chapter 12. Nahuatl L2 texts from Northern Nueva Galicia
Abstract: This chapter examines texts written in Nahuatl by indigenous scribes whose first language was not Nahuatl. The texts come from locations in two different regions in Nueva Galicia, which was the political unit located in west and northwest New Spain: Los Altos must have had Guachichil inhabitants (one of the Chichimec groups), whereas the Sierra Madre Occidental must have had Cora (Uto-Aztecan) inhabitants. The interferences in the documents are phonological as well as morphological and differ in each group of documents.The objective of this chapter is to provide information about linguistic contact between native Mesoamerican languages since contact among them has been only scarcely documented, and to provide information about the uses of Nahuatl as a second language throughout a region whose linguistic past is still being reconstructed.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-06-17
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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