The linguistic legacy of Spanish and Portuguese : colonial expansion and language change /

The historical spread of Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world provides a rich source of data for linguists studying how languages evolve and change. This volume analyses the development of Portuguese and Spanish from Latin and their subsequent transformation into several non-standard varieti...

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Main Author: Clements, J. Clancy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:Cambridge approaches to language contact.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Language contact, language learning, and language change
  • The general socio-historical context of Portuguese and Castilian
  • Portuguese- and Spanish-lexified creole languages
  • Bozal Spanish of Cuba
  • Chinese coolie Spanish in nineteenth-century Cuba
  • Chinese immigrant Spanish
  • Andean Spanish
  • Barranquenho
  • Contact, cognition, and speech community.