This book, the first of its kind, is dedicated to different Spanish varieties spoken in the Amazonian regions of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. The contributions present diverse perspectives on theoretical, methodological, and descriptive characterizations of the study of Amazonian Spanish. It includes linguistic (phonological, syntactic, discourse-pragmatic), typological, ethnographic, sociolinguistic, and language contact approaches. The analyses of oral corpora include comparisons between monolingual and contact varieties of the speech of bilingual speakers who are native speakers of an indigenous Amazonian variety. This collection contributes to the fields of Hispanic and Amerindian Linguistics, and language contact.

About the editors

Margarita Jara, Ph.D. (2006), University of Pittsburgh, is Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has published a monograph and several articles on variation and change, language contact, and language ideologies in Peruvian Amazonian and Limeño Spanish.

Roberto Zariquiey, Ph.D. (2011). Ponticia Universidad Católica del Perú, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at that University and Director of the Masters Program in Linguistics. He has published books and papers on Amazonian languages, including A Grammar of Kakataibo (Mouton de Gruyter 2018).

Pilar Valenzuela Ph.D. (2003), University of Oregon, is Professor at Chapman University in California. She has published monographs and articles (Panoan and Kawapanan languages, Peruvian Amazonian Spanish), worked in language documentation and revitalization, and authored pedagogical materials for indigenous schoolteachers.

Anna María Escobar, Ph.D. (1986), University at Bufalo-SUNY, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Publications include writings on the sociolinguistics, contact phenomena, and grammaticalization processes in Spanish-Quechua contact, and The Handbook of Contact Linguistics (forthcoming), coedited with Salikoko Mufwene.

Acknowledgments 

List of Figures, Tables, and Maps 
Abbreviations 
Notes on Contributors 

Part 1 Spanish in Contact in the Amazon: Sociolinguistics

1 Introduction 
Margarita Jara and Anna María Escobar

2 Ethnocultural Languages in the Study of Language Contact: The Case of Amazonian Spanish 
Anna María Escobar

Part 2 Discourse-Pragmatics, Phonology and Morphosyntax

3 Mirativity in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: An Account of the Discourse Marker Ya Vuelta 
Margarita Jara and Pilar Valenzuela

4 Focus Marking in the Intonation of Peruvian Amazonian Spanish 
Miguel García

5 Tonal Units and Their Phonological Behavior in Amazonian Spanish from La Merced (Peru): An Exploration of the Intonational Patterns of Declarative and Interrogative Sentences 
Jose Elias-Ulloa

6 Apuntes sobre la (no) Distinción de las Palatales Sonoras en el Castellano de Iquitos 
Nila Vigil

7 Depalatalization and Delateralization in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Spanish /ʎ/ in Contact with Kichwa 
Erin O’Rourke

8 Number and Possession in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: The Role of Animacy in the Emergence of Grammar 
Rosa Vallejos-Yopán

9 Feature Selection in Clitic Expression in Two Bilingual Amazonian Spanish Varieties 
Elisabeth Mayer and Liliana Sánchez

Part 3 Lexicon, Morphology and Corpus

10 Dialectal Affiliation of the Quechua Loanwords in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: A First Approximation 
Roberto Zariquiey

11 Spanish-Quechua Symbiosis in Northern Expansion Varieties: Mixed Word Forms in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish and Colombian Inga
Pieter Muysken

12 El Componente del Subcorpus Oral ALEC como Muestra del Español Hablado en la Amazonía Colombiana 
Diana Alejandra Hincapié Moreno, Wilmar Gentil López Barrios, Ruth Yanira Rubio López, Johnatan Estiven Bonilla Huérfano, y Julio
Alexander Bernal Chávez

Author Index 
Language Index 
Subject Index