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 The African slave trade brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the fifteenth century! and resulted in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America over the last 500 years. Separating legitimate forms of Afro-Hispanic expression from those that result from racist stereotyping! he shows how contact with the African diaspora has had a permanent impact on Spanish today. 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 Lipski, John M. Lipski, John M. (Pennsylvania State University) Lipski, Lipski John M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2005
• EAN: 9780521822657
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82265-7
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, Africa, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, African Languages, Historical and comparative linguistics, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / African Languages