Nicholas Q. Emlen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicholas Q. Emlen is involved.
2020 Chapter 10. The many Spanishes of an Andean-Amazonian crossroads Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution, Fafulas, Stephen (ed.), pp. 259–286 | Chapter
In the Southern Peruvian Amazon, agricultural migrants from the Andes have brought Quechua and Andean Spanish into the traditional Amazonian territory of Matsigenka speakers. This chapter offers an ethnographic and socio-historical view of Andean Spanish on one corner of this Amazonian frontier.… read more
2020 On the polymorphemic genesis of some Proto-Quechuan roots: Establishing and interpreting non-random form/meaning correspondences on the basis of a cross-linguistic polysemy network Diachronica 37:3, pp. 318–367 | Article
In the Proto-Quechuan lexicon, many two-segment phonetic substrings recur in semantically related roots, even though they are not independent morphemes. Such elements may have been morphemes before the Proto-Quechuan stage (i.e., in Pre-Proto-Quechuan). On the other hand, this may simply be due… read more
2017 Chapter 2. Proto-Quechua and Proto-Aymara agropastoral terms: Reconstruction and contact patterns Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 25–45 | Chapter
This chapter presents reconstructed Proto-Quechua and Proto-Aymara lexical items related to cultivation and herding, and draws conclusions about language and subsistence in the ancient Andes. The patterns of lexical borrowing between the two lineages offer a novel empirical perspective on how… read more
Integrating linguistic and geographic methods in toponymic analysis: The case of Puquina (Central Andes) Diachronica: Online-First Articles | Article
Toponyms offer valuable clues regarding historical language geographies, but toponymic analysis has often suffered from methodological shortcomings. In particular, post-hoc semantic claims, unmotivated formal correspondences, and lack of systematic corroboration undermine the reliability of many… read more