Lexis (Aug 2018)

“Eso era mi meta de mí”: el doble posesivo en dos variedades de español amazónico

  • Andrés Napurí

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 42, no. 1
pp. 191 – 205

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This work reviews the presence of the double possession in two varieties of Peruvian Amazonian Spanish (ISO 639-3: spq). These varieties are the result of the contact of Spanish with two Amazonian languages of different families and typologies: Bora of the Bora linguistic family and Ashaninka of the Arawak linguistic family. On the one hand, the double possession is present in the variety of Amazonian Spanish with Bora substratum, since this language has a genitive case; on the other hand, the double possessive does not occur in the variety of Amazonian Spanish with Ashaninka substratum, as this language does not present the genitive grammatical case.

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