Afro-Peruvian Spanish : : Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles / / Sandro Sessarego.

• VerfasserIn: Sessarego, Sandro,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to the questions raised by McWhorter's book on The Missing Spanish Creoles, the current study has focused on an aspect of the European colonial enterprise in the Americas that has never been closely analyzed in relation to the evolution of Afro-European contact varieties, the legal regulations of black slavery. This book proposes the 'Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis', which ascribes a prime importance in the development of Afro-European languages in the Americas to the historical evolution of slavery, from the legal rules contained in the Roman Corpus Juris Civilis to the codes and regulations implemented in the different European colonies overseas. This research was carried out with the belief that creole studies will benefit greatly from a more interdisciplinary approach, capable of combining linguistic, socio-historical, legal, and anthropological insights. This study is meant to represent an eclectic step in such a direction.

Table of Contents

Afro-Peruvian Spanish; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 1.1 General introduction; 1.2 Objectives of this study; 1.3 Data collection; 1.4 Organization of the volume; 2. The Spanish creole debate; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Did the Spanish creoles decreolize?; 2.3 The lack of Spanish creoles in the Caribbean: Demographic and economic factors; 2.4 The lack of Spanish creoles on the Mainland: The Afrogenesis Hypothesis; 2.5 The place of this study in the Spanish creole debate. 3. A description of Afro-Peruvian Spanish grammar3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Peruvian Spanish varieties; 3.2.1 Andean highlands; 3.2.2 Lima/central coast; 3.2.3 Northern coast; 3.2.4 Southern coast / south-western Andean region; 3.2.5 Amazonian lowlands; 3.3 A phonetic account of Afro-Peruvian Spanish; 3.3.1 Vowels; 3.3.2 Consonants; 3.3.3 Intonation patterns; 3.4 Afro-Peruvian Spanish morpho-syntax; 3.4.1 Noun Phrase; 3.4.2 Verb Phrase; 3.4.3 Prepositional Phrase; 3.4.4 Phrase-level constructions; 3.5 Lexical items in Afro-Peruvian Spanish; 3.6 A final note on Afro-Peruvian Spanish grammar. 4. The status of Afro-Peruvian Spanish4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Creoles as Interlanguages; 4.3 The proposal; 4.4 The Afro-Hispanic varieties of the Americas; 4.5 Afro-Peruvian Spanish as an advanced conventionalized second language; 4.6 A final note on the status of Afro-Peruvian Spanish and other Afro-Hispanic contact varieties; 5. Black slavery in Peru; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Slavery in the Spanish world before and during the American conquest; 5.3 Conquest and colonization (1530-1650); 5.4 Second phase (1650-1776); 5.5 Third phase (1776-1970); 5.6 Sugar plantations in Chincha. 6. Solving the Spanish creole puzzle: The legal hypothesis of creole genesis6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis, a synopsis; 6.2.1 Roman slave law; 6.2.2 Spanish slave law; 6.2.3 English slave law; 6.2.4 French slave law; 6.2.5 Dutch slave law; 6.2.6 Portuguese slave law; 6.3 How did legal personality affect Spanish slaves' living conditions?; 6.3.1 Historical remarks on Spanish slavery in the Americas; 6.3.2 The legal practice of Spanish slavery; 6.3.3 Back to Peru; 6.3.4 Three case studies to test the Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis; 6.3.4.1 Cuba. 6.3.4.2 Barbados and South Carolina6.3.4.3 Chocó; 6.4 The Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis in the context of Afro-European contact varieties in the ; 7. Concluding remarks; References; Index.