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Spanish contact influence in a Finnish heritage community in Misiones, Argentina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2021

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Eeva Sippola*
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PL 24, Department of Languages, 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Email: eeva.sippola@helsinki.fi
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Abstract

This study examines contact outcomes in Finnish spoken in a heritage community in Misiones province, Argentina, in the 1970s. The data show limited morphosyntactic differences from dialectal varieties of Finnish, and most of the Spanish influence is lexical loans or sporadic codeswitches that have an emphatic function. The results show that beyond established lexical loans, both fluent and less fluent speakers avoid mixing and comment on it when it occurs. Translation and word search strategies show evidence of the speakers’ awareness about language mixing in the interview setting in which data were collected.

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codeswitchingcontactFinnish in MisionesloanwordsSpanishtranslationword searches
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , December 2022 , pp. 348 - 368
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Nordic Association of Linguistics

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