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Ítem Contrasting linguistic ecologies: Indigenous and colonially mediated language contact in northwest Amazonia(Elsevier Ltd., 2018-01-01) Epps, PatienceThis paper investigates the dynamics of multilingualism and the linguistic outcomes of contact involving indigenous languages in the northwest Amazonian Vaupés region. Despite points of continuity, a significant contrast exists between the processes and products of multilingual interaction among indigenous groups and that involving colonial entities. While indigenous interactions have tended to involve language maintenance, grammatical diffusion, and limited lexical borrowing, contact between indigenous and European languages has tended toward more code-switching, lexical borrowing, and large-scale language shift. These findings illustrate that attention to differing linguistic ecologies, with their associated social and cultural dynamics, is crucial to understanding the mechanisms and outcomes of language contact, and that we must be cautious in projecting the patterns of one context upon another.Ítem Reconsidering the “Makú” Language Family of Northwest Amazonia(The University of Chicago, 2017-01-01) Epps, Patience; Bolaños Quiñónez, Katherine ElizabethEl objetivo es revisar las evidencias en las que se estableció la familia lingüística Makú-Puinave y proponer otra filiación agrupando las lenguas daw, nadöb, hup y yujup en la familia Nadahupan. Las lenguas kakwa y nukak se agrupan en otro brazo y se descarta afiliación del puinave como emparentado con las anteriores.