Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics : : Isolation and Contact.

• Superior document: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series ; v.12
• Author: Chappell, Whitney.
• TeilnehmendeR: Drinka, Bridget.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- New perspectives on Spanish socio-historical linguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research on isolation and contact -- 3. Motivations for the present volume -- 4. Chapters within the volume -- 5. The intersectionality of isolation and contact -- References -- Section I. Socio-historical features in isolation and contact -- Complexification of the early modern Spanish address system: A role for koineization? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is koineization? -- 3. Koineization in early modern Spain and the new world -- 4. Forms of address in koineization -- 5. Complexification of the early modern Spanish address system -- 6. Actuation of changes in the address pronoun system(s) -- 6.1 Setting the stage: Change in 15th-century court society and address -- 6.2 Early modern developments -- 7. Conclusion: A role for koineization? -- References -- Personal vs. personalized infinitives in Ibero-Romance: Historical origins and contact-induced change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining personal and personalized infinitives in Ibero-Romance -- 3. Syntax of infinitivals with subjects -- 3.1 Government and control -- 3.2 Licensing and abstract agreement, and coreference with PRO -- 4. Theories of contact, convergence, and divergence: Koineization in Galician and Asturian -- 5. History and distribution of personal infinitives: Portuguese and Galician -- 5.1 Creative argument -- 5.2 Analogy argument -- 5.3 Latin imperfect subjunctive argument -- 5.4 Assimilation and dissimilation in Galician: Effects of contact with Castilian -- 6. The history and syntax of personalized infinitives: Castilian and Asturian -- 6.1 Castilian -- 6.2 Asturian -- 6.3 Contact with Castilian and koineization in Asturian -- 7. Conclusion -- References.

Language variation and change through an experimental lens: Contextual modulation in the use of the Progressive in three Spanish dialects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Communicative situations, context and linguistic markers -- 3. The meanings of the Progressive and the Imperfective -- 4. Spanish diachronic and synchronic facts -- 5. A questionnaire study on the event-in-progress reading -- 6. Real-time interpretation of an event-in-progress reading: An SPR study -- 7. Results -- 7.1 Behavioral results -- 7.2 Reading time results -- 8. Discussion -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Adult language and dialect learning as simultaneous environmental triggers for language change in Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language contact vs. dialect contact -- 3. Contact among systems vs. contact among speakers: Language acquisition and language change from an evolutionary-ecological perspective -- 4. Early colonial Spanish sibilants -- 4.1 The internal ecology of ECS fricative sibilants -- 4.2 The external ecology of the early Spanish American colonies -- 4.3 Acquisition of sibilants in ECS from a cross-linguistic perspective -- 4.4 Towards a new account of ECS sibilants: The role of adult language learning -- 5. Object Pronoun paradigms in Medieval Southern Iberian Castilian (MSIC) -- 5.1 The internal ecology of MSIC clitics -- 5.2 The external ecology of MSIC clitics -- 5.3 Acquisition of clitics in MSIC from a cross-linguistic perspective -- 5.4 Towards a new account of MSIC clitics: The role of adult language learning -- 6. Conclusion: Individuals as agents of language change -- References -- Section II. Socio-historical varieties in isolation and contact -- Searching for the sociolinguistic history of Afro-Panamanian Congo speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Afro-Panamanian Congo speech and culture -- 3. When and where did Congo language first emerge?.

4. To what extent does Congo language reflect earlier Afro-Hispanic pidginized speech? -- 5. To what extent was - and is - Congo language used for effective communication? -- 6. Conclusions: In search of the Congo sociolinguistic trajectory -- References -- Appendix. Transcribed examples of Congo speech -- A socio-historical perspective on the origin and evolution of two Afro-Andean vernaculars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Decreolization and Afro-Andean Spanish -- 3. A sociohistorical sketch of black slavery in the Andes -- 3.1 First arrivals (16th century-mid-17th century) -- 3.2 The second wave (mid-17th century-last decades of the 18th century) -- 3.3 The gradual path to emancipation (last decades of the 18th century-present) -- 4. A closer look at YS and CS -- 4.1 Yungas, Bolivia -- 4.2 Chota Valley, Ecuador -- 5. Final remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Vamos en Palma 'we are going to Palma': On the persistence (and demise) of a contact feature in the Spanish of Majorca -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Directional uses of en -- 4. Looking for the source of Majorcan Spanish directional en -- 4.1 Majorcan Catalan -- 4.2 Simplification and hypergeneralization -- 4.3 Historical data -- 5. On the historical continuity of directional en -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Funding -- References -- Anthroponymic perseverance of Spanish vestigial &lt -- x&gt -- -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evolution of Spanish &lt -- x&gt -- -- 2.1 &lt -- x&gt -- in vestigial variants of personal names -- 2.2 Socio-cultural significance of &lt -- x&gt -- in México and broader valorizations -- 3. Methods -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Index of subjects -- Index of varieties, languages, and language families.