Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó

249 Pages·2019·3.691 MB·

by  Sandro Sessarego

Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic
Vernacular
Exploringcreolestudiesfromalinguistic,historical,andsocio-culturalper-
spective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using
acohesiveapproachtoprovidenewtheoreticalinsightsintolanguageshift,
language acquisition, and language change. It compares the legal system
regulatingblackslaveryinChocó,Colombiawiththesystemsimplemented
by other European colonial powers in the Americas, to address questions
suchas:WhatdoChocóSpanishlinguisticfeaturessayaboutthenatureof
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
canbeeasilyappliedandtestedtoothercontactlanguagesandsettings,and
usedtoaddresscurrentdebatesontheoriginofotherblackcommunitiesinthe
Americasandthelanguagestheyspeak.
sandrosessaregoisanAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofSpanish
andPortugueseattheUniversityofTexasatAustin.Heisauthorofanumber
of books including La schiavitù nera nell’America spagnola (2018), Afro-
PeruvianSpanish(2015),andTheAfro-BolivianSpanishDeterminerPhrase
(2014).
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CambridgeApproachestoLanguageContact
FoundingEditor
salikokos.mufwene,UniversityofChicago
Co-Editor
anadeumert,UniversityofCapeTown
EditorialBoard
robertchaudenson,Universitéd’Aix-en-Provence
brajkachru,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana
rajmesthrie,UniversityofCapeTown
lesleymilroy,UniversityofMichigan
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michaelsilverstein,UniversityofChicago
Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact is an interdisciplinary series
bringing together work on language contact from a diverse range of research
areas.Theseriesfocusesonkeytopicsinthestudyofcontactbetweenlanguages
ordialects,includingthedevelopmentofpidginsandcreoles,languageevolution
and change, world Englishes, code-switching and code-mixing, bilingualism
and second language acquisition, borrowing, interference, and convergence
phenomena.
Publishedtitles:
SalikokoMufwene,TheEcologyofLanguageEvolution
MichaelClyne,DynamicsofLanguageContact
BerndHeineandTaniaKuteva,LanguageContactandGrammaticalChange
EdgarW.Schneider,PostcolonialEnglish
VirginiaYipandStephenMatthews,TheBilingualChild
BerndHeineandDerekNurse(eds.),ALinguisticGeographyofAfrica
J.ClancyClements,TheLinguisticLegacyofSpanishandPortuguese
UmbertoAnsaldo,ContactLanguages
JanBlommaert,TheSociolinguisticsofGlobalization
CarmenSilva-Corvalán,BilingualLanguageAcquisition
LotfiSayahi,DiglossiaandLanguageContact
EmanuelJ.Drechsel,LanguageContactintheEarlyColonialPacific
EnochOladéAboh,TheEmergenceofHybridGrammars
ZhimingBao,TheMakingofVernacularSingaporeEnglish
BrajB.Kachru,WorldEnglishesandCultureWars
BridgetDrinka,LanguageContactinEurope:ThePeriphrasticPerfectthroughHistory
SalikokoMufwene,ChistopheCoupé,andFrançoisPellegrino(eds.),Linguistic
EcologyandLanguageContact
RalphLudwig,PeterMühlhäusler,andStevePagel(eds.),LinguisticEcologyand
LanguageContact
SandroSessarego,LanguageContactandtheMakingofanAfro-HispanicVernacular:
VariationandChangeintheColumbianChocó
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Furthertitlesplannedfortheseries:
RakeshBhatt,LanguageContactandDiaspora
GregoryD.S.Anderson,LanguageExtinction
EllenHurstandRajendMesthrie(eds.),YouthLanguageVarietiesinAfrica
CecileVigouroux,Migration,Economy,andLanguagePractice
AgnesHe,TheVoiceofImmigration:TransculturalCommunicationandLanguage
Shift
YaronMatrasandLeonieGeiser,ReadingtheLinguisticLandscape:AnEcologyof
PracticesintheMultilingualCity
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Language Contact and the Making
of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó
Sandro Sessarego
UniversityofTexasatAustin
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Contents
ListofFigures pagexi
ListofTables xii
ListofMaps xiii
SeriesEditor’sForeword xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 WhyThisBook? 1
1.2 Methodology 4
1.3 TheBook’sStructure 5
2 ThePlaceofChocóSpanishintheSpanishCreoleDebate 7
2.1 Introduction 7
2.2 Granda’sMonogenesis-DecreolizationHypothesis 10
2.3 TheMissingSpanishCreoles 38
2.4 ChocóSpanishasaTestingGroundfortheLegalHypothesisofCreole
Genesis 44
2.5 ANoteontheImportanceofChocótotheFieldofCreoleStudies 47
3 ASketchofChocóSpanish 49
3.1 Introduction 49
3.2 TheDialectsofColombia 49
3.3 ThePhoneticsandPhonologyofChocóSpanish 52
3.4 ChocóSpanishMorphosyntax 74
3.5 SomeObservationsontheStatusofChocóSpanishGrammar 99
4 RootsofSomeLanguages 103
4.1 Introduction 103
4.2 Afro-HispanicLanguagesattheLinguisticInterfaces 106
4.3 BareNouns 108
4.4 NominalandVerbalMorphology 110
4.5 OvertSubjectPronounsandSubject-verbInversioninQuestions 114
4.6 ProsodicFeatures 121
4.7 InterfacePhenomenaattheRootofChocóSpanish’sOrigin 125
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