Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas

Edited by: Danae Maria Perez and Eeva Sippola

Volume 18 in the series Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723977

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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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Danae Maria Perez, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; Eeva Sippola, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Colonialism and new language varieties in the Americas: An introduction Eeva Sippola and Danae Maria Perez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Pero – Champion of Hispanization? On the challenges of documenting function word borrowing in Mesoamerican languages Thomas Stolz, Deborah Arbes and Christel Stolz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
A Mesoamerican perspective on contactinduced change in numeral classification Maja Robbers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Secondary derivation in the Michif verb: Beyond the traditional Algonquian template Maria Mazzoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Social conditioning for the transmission of adstrate features in contact varieties of Spanish in the Central Andes Danae Maria Perez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
The Afro-Brazilian community Kalunga: Linguistic and sociohistorical perspectives Ana Paulla Braga Mattos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Hispanicization in the Welsh settlement of Chubut Province, Argentina Some current linguistic developments Iwan Wyn Rees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Complex patterns of variety perception in the Eastern Caribbean New insights from St. Kitts Danae Maria Perez and Mirjam Schmalz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
The contested role of colonial language ideologies in multilingual Belize Britta Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Index of Languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers and Students of Language Contact, Bilingualism, Contact Languages, Sociolinguistics, Language Endangerment
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 326
Keywords: Language Change; Language Documentation; Language Vitality; Language Contact

eBook

Published: June 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110723977

Hardcover

Published: June 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110723908

Paperback

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783111120768