Search results for " Aymara"
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Pragmatic markers resulting from language contact. The case of sañani in Aymara
2020
This paper explores the pragmatic functions of a previously unattested pragmatic marker (Fraser, 1996, 2006) found in Aymara, i.e. sanani ‘let’s say’. The uses of sanani suggest that this marker is the result of the influence of Spanish on Aymara due to sustained language contact. Sanani seems to be the “replication” (Heine and Kuteva, 2005) of the Spanish pragmatic marker digamos ‘let’s say’. Like digamos (Grande Alija, 2010; Quartararo, 2017a), sanani functions as a pragmatic marker by signaling either an inferential process or the semantic relation between two discourse segments. The original data used for this analysis was gathered through the Family Problems Picture task (San Roque et …
Evidencialidad indirecta en aimara y en el español de La Paz. Un estudio semántico-pragmático de textos orales
2017
This study investigates the expression of the indirect evidential subdomain in two languages in contact, i.e. the northern variety of Central Aymara and the variety of Spanish spoken in La Paz (Bolivia). For this aim, the study uses first-hand data collected in La Paz and El Alto (Bolivia) during 2014 and 2015. Data was elicited through: the “Family Problems Picture” task (San Roque et al. 2012), formulated by the members of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and created specifically for the activation of cognitive categories such as evidentiality and mirativity; the “Pear Story” designed for Wallace Chafe, professor at the University of California, to collect narrative texts th…
Grammatica latina e innovazione nella linguistica missionaria: il contributo di Ludovico Bertonio (1557-1625)
2022
L’analisi delle prime grammatiche delle lingue native, scritte dai missionari allo scopo di standardizzare le innumerevoli varietà linguistiche con cui gli europei vennero a contatto durante il periodo della colonizzazione spagnola e portoghese in sud America, consente di gettare una nuova luce sull’evoluzione del pensiero linguistico all’inizio dell’era moderna. Questo lavoro si concentra in particolare sulla prima grammatica dell’aymara, l’Arte y Grammatica muy copiosa de la lengua aymara, scritta in lingua castigliana alla fine del Cinquecento (1596) dal missionario gesuita italiano Ludovico Bertonio e pubblicata a Roma nel 1603.