Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular Book contents
- Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
- Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
- Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Maps
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Place of Chocó Spanish in the Spanish Creole Debate
- 3 A Sketch of Chocó Spanish
- 4 Roots of Some Languages
- 5 Black Slavery in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia
- 6 Testing the Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis on Colonial Chocó
- 7 Final Considerations
- Appendix
- References
- Index
3 - A Sketch of Chocó Spanish
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2019
- Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
- Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
- Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Maps
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Place of Chocó Spanish in the Spanish Creole Debate
- 3 A Sketch of Chocó Spanish
- 4 Roots of Some Languages
- 5 Black Slavery in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia
- 6 Testing the Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis on Colonial Chocó
- 7 Final Considerations
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter consists of an analysis of the main linguistic features characterizing Chocó Spanish (CS), as encountered during my visits to the province of Quibdó during the winter of 2014–2015. Results will be presented, along with the data provided by other researchers, in an effort to offer a general picture of the grammatical status of this Afro-Hispanic vernacular in relation to other AHLAs and to standard Colombian Spanish. This will serve as a linguistic foundation, which will be combined with the historical and legal information presented in the following chapters, to address the hypotheses that have been provided in the literature on the origin of CS and the current paucity of Spanish creoles in the Americas. In the following section, before focusing on the grammatical analysis of CS, I will sketch a phonetic description of the main Spanish dialects spoken in Colombia. This will help us locate CS within its dialectal context.
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- Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic VernacularVariation and Change in the Colombian Chocó, pp. 49 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019