Karen Dakin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Karen Dakin is involved.

Title

Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond

Edited by Karen Dakin, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein

Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 185] 2017. xv, 433 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Dakin, Karen 2017 Chapter 13. Western and Central Nahua dialects: Possible influences from contact with Cora and Huichol Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 263–300 | Chapter

This contribution explores the possibilities in the terms of comparative and historical linguistics that detailed analyses of six isoglosses in Nahua dialectology can serve to determine the chronology of key changes identified. Other proposals that treat those same changes are evaluated, in… read more

Dakin, Karen and Natalie Operstein 2017 Chapter 1. Language contact in Mesoamerica and beyond Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Chapter

The purpose of this introductory chapter is to provide an overview of the volume by outlining some of the major threads in the published literature on language contact and contact-induced change in Mesoamerica and adjacent areas, and by situating the volume and its individual chapters in the… read more

Dakin, Karen 2007 Final features and proto-Uto-Aztecan: A contribution using morphological reconstruction Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. and Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.), pp. 295–310 | Article

Dakin, Karen 2003 Uto-Aztecan in the linguistic stratigraphy of Mesoamerican prehistory Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in Stratigraphy, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 259–288 | Article

Dakin, Karen 2001 Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.), pp. 105–117 | Article