Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108485814 |
| ISBN10: | 1108485812 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 246 pages |
| Size: | 235x157x18 mm |
| Weight: | 460 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 12 b/w illus. 5 maps 11 tables |
| 136 |
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Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 12 September 2019
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Short description:
Explores theoretical and typological issues surrounding the emergence of creole languages, using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies.
Long description:
Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a cohesive approach to provide new theoretical insights into language shift, language acquisition and language change. It compares the legal system regulating black slavery in Choc&&&243;, Colombia with the systems implemented by other European colonial powers in the Americas, to address questions such as what do Choc&&&243; Spanish linguistic features say about the nature of Afro-Hispanic vernaculars? What were the sociohistorical conditions in which Choc&&&243; Spanish formed? Was slavery in Choc&&&243; much different from slavery in other European colonies? Whilst primarily focused on Afro-Hispanic language varieties, Sessarego's findings and methodology can be easily applied and tested to other contact languages and settings, and used to address current debates on the origin of other black communities in the Americas and the languages they speak.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. The place of Choc&&&243; Spanish in the Spanish creole debate; 3. A sketch of Choc&&&243; 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 Choc&&&243;; 7. Final considerations.
