Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas

Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas

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 t...

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Other Authors: Arbes, Deborah, Braga Mattos, Ana Paulla, Mazzoli, Maria, Perez, Danae (Editor), Rees, Iwan Wyn, Robbers, Maja, Schmalz, Mirjam, Schneider, Britta, Sippola, Eeva (Editor), Stolz, Christel, Stolz, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter, [2021]
Series:Koloniale und postkoloniale Linguistik ; Bd. 18.
Subjects:
America > Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
Languages in contact > America > History.
Postcolonialism > America.
Language Change.
Language Contact.
Language Documentation.
Language Vitality.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Colonialism and new language varieties in the Americas: An introduction
  • Pero - Champion of Hispanization?
  • A Mesoamerican perspective on contactinduced 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
  • Complex patterns of variety perception in the Eastern Caribbean
  • The contested role of colonial language ideologies in multilingual Belize
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects

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