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Scavnicky, Gary Eugene A. – Espanol Actual, 1974
Discusses the use of the Spanish suffix "-al" in six Central American countries, derived from both Spanish and native languages, and Spanish.) (CK)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Etymology, Mayan Languages, Regional Dialects
Download full textScavnicky, Gary Eugene A. – 1975
This paper examines the actual content and use of Indian vocabulary in standard Guatemalan Spanish, as opposed to the numerous entries found in antiquated dictionaries. Over 600 Indian words were extracted from contemporary Guatemalan literature and Lisandro Sandoval's "Semantica guatemalense." Interviews were arranged with middle and…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Area Studies, Bilingualism, Cakchiquel
Sonora Univ. (Mexico), Dept. of Letters and Linguistics. – 1994
Papers in these volumes were presented at a Mexican conference on linguistics. Most papers are in Spanish; the English translations of the titles include the following: "Directions in Contemporary Semantics" (L. Lara); "Regular Accentuation in Spanish" (C. Braithwaite); "Syntactic Order in Sonoran" (D. Brown); "Speech Datives or Interest/Not of…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ethnology
