Hispanisation : : The Impact of Spanish on the Lexicon and Grammar of the Indigenous Languages of Austronesia and the Americas / / ed. by Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker, Rosa Salas Palomo.

Literally hundreds of languages world-wide have experienced direct or indirect Hispanisation during the heyday of the Spanish colonial empire. The number of languages which continue to borrow from Spanish on a daily basis is considerable especially in Latin America. This volume gives the reader a be...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 39
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Section I – Latin America
  • Hispanisation in Colonial Nahuatl?
  • The Hispanisation of modern Nahuatl
  • varieties
  • From language mixing to mixed language via purism?
  • Spanish in contact with Zapotec (Oaxaca/Mexico)
  • Hispanisms in Kuna
  • Spanish lexical borrowing in Imbabura Quichua: In
  • search of constraints on language contact
  • Spanish prepositions in Media Lengua: Redefining
  • relexification
  • Section II – Austronesia
  • Reversing Hispanisation on Rapa Nui (Easter
  • Island)
  • The old, the new and the in-between: Comparative
  • aspects of Hispanisation on the Marianas and Easter Island (Rapa
  • Nui)
  • Hispanisation processes in the Philippines
  • Pro or contra Hispanisms: Attitudes of native
  • speakers of modern Chamoru
  • Backmatter