Sandro Sessarego (Austin University of Texas)

Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular

Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó

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Produktbeschreibung

Using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies, this study advances our knowledge of creolistics. Focusing primarily on Afro-Hispanic varieties, it will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in language contact, historical linguistics, language variation and change, and Latin American studies.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781108724777
• ISBN-10: 1108724779
• Artikelnr.: 63557784

Autorenporträt

Sandro Sessarego is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of a number of books including La schiavitù nera nell'America spagnola (2018), Afro-Peruvian Spanish (2015) and The Afro-Bolivian Spanish Determiner Phrase (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The place of Chocó Spanish in the Spanish creole debate
3. A sketch of Chocó Spanish
4. Roots of some languages
5. Black slavery in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia
6. Testing the legal hypothesis of Creole genesis on colonial Chocó
7. Final considerations.