Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas /

Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas / / ed. by Danae Maria Perez, Eeva Sippola.

In the Americas, both indigenous and postcolonial languages today bear witness of massive changes that have taken place since the colonial era. However, a unified approach to languages from different colonial areas is still missing.The present volume studies postcolonial varieties that emerged due t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Arbes, Deborah,
Braga Mattos, Ana Paulla,
Mazzoli, Maria,
Perez, Danae Maria,
Rees, Iwan Wyn,
Robbers, Maja,
Schmalz, Mirjam,
Schneider, Britta,
Sippola, Eeva,
Stolz, Christel,
Stolz, Thomas,
HerausgeberIn:
Perez, Danae Maria,
Sippola, Eeva,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) , 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 326 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Colonialism and new language varieties in the Americas: An introduction
  • Pero – Champion of Hispanization?
  • A Mesoamerican perspective on contactinduced change in numeral classification
  • Secondary derivation in the Michif verb: Beyond the traditional Algonquian template
  • Social conditioning for the transmission of adstrate features in contact varieties of Spanish in the Central Andes
  • The Afro-Brazilian community Kalunga: Linguistic and sociohistorical perspectives
  • Hispanicization in the Welsh settlement of Chubut Province, Argentina
  • Complex patterns of variety perception in the Eastern Caribbean
  • The contested role of colonial language ideologies in multilingual Belize
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects

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