Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring: Volume 168 - Aspects of Afro-Hispanic Linguistics

Approaching creole studies from contrasting standpoints, this book offers new insights into language variation and contact-induced change.

List of contents

1. Questioning a Long-Lasting Assumption in the Field; 2. The African Diaspora to the Andes and its Linguistic Consequences; 3. Reconciling Formalism and Language Variation; 4. Variable Phi-Agreement across the Determiner Phrase; 5. Partial Pro-Drop Phenomena; 6. Early-Peak Alignment and Duplication of Boundary Tone Configurations; 7. Final Considerations; References; Index.

About the author

Sandro Sessarego is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. He works primarily in the fields of contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax and human rights. He has published a number of books on law and linguistics; his most recent one is Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular (2019, Cambridge).

Summary

Approaching creole studies from contrasting standpoints, this pioneering study casts new light on the nature of the Afro-Hispanic Languages of the Americas. It provides original theoretical and methodological perspectives for a more integrated approach to the study of contact-driven restructuring across language interfaces and linguistic domains.

Product details

• Authors: Sandro Sessarego, Sandro (University of Texas Sessarego, Sessarego Sandro
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2024
• EAN: 9781108987189
• ISBN: 978-1-108-98718-9
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Sociolinguistics, Spanish, Language: history & general works, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Language: history and general works, Afro-Asiatic languages