Language contact phenomena in Maya under Spanish influence: A case study on pronoun use in Yucatec Maya

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2024
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  • language contact
  • Yucatec Maya
  • Mexican Spanish
  • interface hypothesis
  • contact-induced grammaticalisation
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  • This contribution aims to analyse the language contact phenomena
    between Yucatec Maya and Spanish, focusing specifically on the case of pronominals.
    This empirical study takes place in the village of Xocén in Yucatán, Mexico where most
    locals speak Maya while Spanish is the official language also spoken by many (bilingual)
    locals. The use of pronominals in Maya differs from Spanish in terms of morphology,
    functions, case assignment, syntactic conditions, and discourse conditions. I apply the
    interface hypothesis developed by Sorace (2011) which expects bilinguals to show
    optionality in the use of pronominals that require specific syntactic and discourse
    conditions (interface), and the contact-induced language change hypothesis developed
    by Heine and Kuteva (2003) which expects the formation of the pronominals in Maya
    to be influenced by Spanish. In a case study with three monolingual Mayan speakers
    and six bilingual Mayan-Spanish speakers, I collected freely produced speech data in
    Maya focusing on the use of pronominals and analysed the different functions these
    pronominals fulfil. The results show that bilinguals do display optionality regarding
    certain pronominals that exist at interfaces and that no influence of Spanish can be
    found in the Mayan pronominal system. Therefore, Maya-Spanish bilingualism can be
    better characterised by Sorace’s interface hypothesis (2011) than by contact-induced
    grammaticalisation (Heine and Kuteva 2003).
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