Linguistic contact mapuzugun/Spanish. Linguistic, historical and social aspects. Bibliographic review and analysis proposal from the morphosyntactic and typological dimensions

Abstract

This article discusses and positions the linguistic contact phenomena between mapuzu-gun and Spanish from a comprehensive perspective which combines extralinguistic outlook, internal and external factors which so far have been treated separately. This research makes a sociohistorical and sociolinguistic revision to the Spanish-mapuzungun relationship. The social interaction of the languages regardless the use domains and the sociocultural insti-tutions  that  arise  from  the  cultural  contact  and  occidental  colonization  from  a  historical  point of view is emphasized. Different national scholar papers about linguistic contact are discussed here. We propose a new model and a new analysis approach to study the Mapuzugun/Spanish contact in mapuche bilinguals. Finally, we stress the necessity of understanding linguistic contact as a complex phenomenon involving extra-linguistic factor, internal and external ones.Abstract