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
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The evolution of Spanish &lt
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• 2.1 &lt
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• in vestigial variants of personal names
• 2.2 Socio-cultural significance of &lt
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• in México and broader valorizations
• 3. Methods
• 4. Results
• 5. Discussion
• 6. Conclusion
• References
• Index of subjects
• Index of varieties, languages, and language families.