Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular - Variation and Change in the Colombian Choco

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sandro Sessarego, Sandro (University of Texas Sessarego, Sessarego Sandro
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781108724777
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72477-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Historical and comparative linguistics