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...

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.