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- Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring
- Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Questioning a Long-Lasting Assumption in the Field
- 2 The African Diaspora to the Andes and Its Linguistic Consequences
- 3 Reconciling Formalism and Language Variation
- 4 Variable Phi-Agreement across the Determiner Phrase
- 5 Partial Pro-Drop Phenomena
- 6 Early-Peak Alignment and Duplication of Boundary Tone Configurations
- 7 Final Considerations
- References
- Index
1 - Questioning a Long-Lasting Assumption in the Field
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2021
- Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring
- Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Questioning a Long-Lasting Assumption in the Field
- 2 The African Diaspora to the Andes and Its Linguistic Consequences
- 3 Reconciling Formalism and Language Variation
- 4 Variable Phi-Agreement across the Determiner Phrase
- 5 Partial Pro-Drop Phenomena
- 6 Early-Peak Alignment and Duplication of Boundary Tone Configurations
- 7 Final Considerations
- References
- Index
Summary
The Afro-Hispanic languages of the Americas (AHLAs) are rich in structures and prosodic patterns that would be considered either ungrammatical or pragmatically infelicitous in standard Spanish. Some of these features have traditionally been classified as the traces of a once-existing creole language, which would have almost completely dissolved after a process of decreolization. The present book was written out of the conviction that the Decreolization Hypothesis is on the wrong track and that such “creole-like” features can actually be explained as the result of common contact-driven phenomena, which are related to processing constraints affecting the interfaces between different language modules; hence, they are universal and depend on the nature of the architecture of the language faculty.
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- Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven RestructuringAspects of Afro-Hispanic Linguistics, pp. 1 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021