Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas
- 334 pages
- English
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Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas
About this book
In the Americas, both indigenous and postcolonial languages today bear witness of massive changes that have taken place since the colonial era. However, a unified approach to languages from different colonial areas is still missing.
The present volume studies postcolonial varieties that emerged due to changing linguistic and sociolinguistic conditions in different settings across the Americas. The studies cover indigenous languages that are undergoing lexical and grammatical change due to the presence of colonial languages and the emergence of new dialects and creoles due to contact. The contributions showcase the diversity of approaches to tackle fundamental questions regarding the processes triggered by language contact as well as the wide range of outcomes contact has had in postcolonial settings.
The volume adds to the documentation of the linguistic properties of postcolonial language varieties in a socio-historically informed framework. It explores the complex dynamics of extra-linguistic factors that brought about the processes of language change in them and contributes to a better understanding of the determinant factors that lead to the emergence and evolution of such codes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Colonialism and new language varieties in the Americas: An introduction
- Pero – Champion of Hispanization? On the challenges of documenting function word borrowing in Mesoamerican languages
- A Mesoamerican perspective on contact-induced change in numeral classification
- Secondary derivation in the Michif verb: Beyond the traditional Algonquian template
- Social conditioning for the transmission of adstrate features in contact varieties of Spanish in the Central Andes
- The Afro-Brazilian community Kalunga: Linguistic and sociohistorical perspectives
- Hispanicization in the Welsh settlement of Chubut Province, Argentina. Some current linguistic developments
- Complex patterns of variety perception in the Eastern Caribbean. New insights from St. Kitts
- The contested role of colonial language ideologies in multilingual Belize
- Index of Authors
- Index of Languages
- Index of Subjects