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This article discusses and positions the linguistic contact phenomena between mapuzugun 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 institutions 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 FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares the use of unaccented pronouns in accusative and dative function in the narrative production of three groups of students monolingual in Spanish: (a) rural Mapuche, (b) rural non-Mapuche and (c) urban. Our assumption is that the use of clitics is different according to the situation of contact between languages. In this context, we establish three types of uses: "standard use", "rural use" and "ethnical use". The Mapuche group uses the pronouns in different forms from the other two groups. This difference is discussed in the frame of contemporary contact linguistic and functional and typological linguistic. This approach allows us to attribute this uses to indirect transfer porduced by the intense and historical contact between the Mapudungun and Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]