History of Afro-Hispanic Language - Five Centuries, Five Continents

Informationen zum Autor John Lipski is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. Klappentext This 2004 book describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language contact and how they have affected contemporary Spanish. Zusammenfassung The African slave trade! beginning in the fifteenth-century! brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese. In this 2004 book! John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language that resulted from this contact! assessing how it has permanently affected regional and social varieties of Spanish today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Note on the appendix; Introduction; 1. Africans in the Iberian peninsular, the slave trade, and overview of Afro-Iberian linguistic contacts; 2. Early Afro-Portuguese texts; 3. Early Afro-Hispanic texts; 4. Africans in colonial Spanish America; 5. Afro-Hispanic texts from Latin America: sixteenth to twentieth centuries; 6. Survey of major African language families; 7. Phonetics/phonology of Afro-Hispanic language; 8. Grammatical features of Afro-Hispanic language; 9. The Spanish-Creole debate; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John M. Lipski, John M. (Pennsylvania State University) Lipski, Lipski John M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521115582
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11558-2
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Linguistics, Africa, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, African Languages, Historical and comparative linguistics, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / African Languages