The Iberian Challenge :creole languages beyond the plantation setting (Lengua y Sociedad en el Mundo Hispánico) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 8484899624 ISBN 13: 9788484899624

Verlag: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, S.L., 2016

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Creole languages lexified by Spanish and Portuguese have played a relatively small role in theories of creole genesis. This volume argues that there is not a priori reason to give English and French-based plantation creoles a preferential treatment, but shows that Iberian-based creoles demonstrate a diversity of complex circumstances that any overarching theory of creole genesis ought to take into account.

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Armin Schwegler is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of California, Irvine. His early research focused on Romance languages in general, with an emphasis on language typology and diachronic changes between Latin and modern Spanish, French, (Brazilian) Portuguese and so forth. The past three decades he has concentrated on the Afro-Hispanic diaspora in the New World, with special focus on Palenquero (Colombia). John McWhorter teaches linguistics, philosophy and music history at Columbia University. He has written extensively on creole languages and on grammatical restructuring amidst language contact worldwide as well as books on language for a general public. He earned his doctorate from Stanford University. Liane Ströbel is a (longterm) Visiting Professor at the University of Aachen. Her research seeks to explain diachronic language phenomena from a cognitive perspective. For that purpose she has studied creole language structures in order to gain a better understanding of universal mechanisms that govern language change in contact situations.

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• Verlag: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, S.L.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 8484899624
• ISBN 13: 9788484899624
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270
• Herausgeber: Schwegler Armin, McWhorter John, Ströbel Liane