Christian Puma Ninacuri focuses his research on the field of Sociolinguistics with an emphasis on language contact and change, diaspora studies, language ideologies, and linguistic landscapes.In particular, he explores the effects of language and dialect contact, and language ideologies in the Ecuadorian Andean Spanish (EAS) variety spoken in New York City (NYC). His research aims to determine whether this variety of Spanish is losing, changing, or maintaining linguistic features by comparing it with EAS spoken in Ecuador. At the same time, he explores the role of language ideologies and social networks in the maintenance of Spanish in the Ecuadorian community in NYC. In addition, he investigates how diaspora communities have (re)created new spaces through linguistic and semiotic resources and how those resources are displayed in the public space (the linguistic landscape). Through this, he aims to uncover the power dynamics between language(s) displayed in public signage, and how the presence of linguistic and semiotic resources re-creates a sense of locality in diaspora communities.
Book Chapters
Gubitosi, Patricia., Narváez, Daniela, and Puma Ninacuri, Christian. “The Ecuadorian diaspora in Madrid and the conceptualization of sociolinguistic authenticity.” In Language practices and processes among Latin Americans in Europe, edited by Rosina Márquez Reiter and Adriana Patiño-Santos, 50-71. London: Routledge, 2022.
Puma Ninacuri, Christian and Narváez, Daniela. “Linguistic Landscape in Otavalo. Kichwa, Spanish or English?” In Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking world, edited by Patricia Gubitosi and Michelle Ramos Pellicia, 313-340. Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, vol. 35. Cambridge, MA: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.
Journal Articles
“La influencia del kichwa en el castellano andino ecuatoriano ambateño: el caso del morfema -ka.” Boletín de Filología 57, no. 1 (June 2022): 209-231. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-93032022000100209
Gubitosi, Patricia, Puma Ninacuri, Christian and Narváez, Daniela. “Landscaping an Ecuadorian Neighborhood in Queens, NY.” Cuadernos de Lingüística Hispánica, no. 36 (December 2020): 211-234. https://doi.org/10.19053/0121053X.n36.2020.11302
“Contactos lingüísticos en Ecuador y su diaspora en Nueva York.” Guest speaker at the University of Bern with Dr. Marleen Haboud (virtual). 2022
“Object Focus Marking in Ecuadorian Andean Spanish.” 51st Virtual Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Cleveland, Ohio. September 22 – 24, 2022
“Usos dinámicos de lenguas minorizadas en el paisaje lingüístico: El caso del kichwa en dos ciudades andinas ecuatorianas” (with Paola Enríquez Duque and Daniela Narváez). 51st
