Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact)

Sessarego, Sandro

ISBN 10: 1108724779 / ISBN 13: 9781108724777

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108724779
• ISBN 13: 9781108724777
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a cohesive approach to provide new theoretical insights into language shift, language acquisition and language change. It compares the legal system regulating black slavery in Chocó, Colombia with the systems implemented by other European colonial powers in the Americas, to address questions such as what do Chocó Spanish linguistic features say about the nature of Afro-Hispanic vernaculars? What were the sociohistorical conditions in which Chocó Spanish formed? Was slavery in Chocó much different from slavery in other European colonies? Whilst primarily focused on Afro-Hispanic language varieties, Sessarego's findings and methodology can be easily applied and tested to other contact languages and settings, and used to address current debates on the origin of other black communities in the Americas and the languages they speak.

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 schiavitł nera nell'America spagnola (2018), Afro-Peruvian Spanish (2015) and The Afro-Bolivian Spanish Determiner Phrase (2014).