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Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
Sandro Sessarego
其他書名
Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó
出版Cambridge University Press, 2019-09-12
主題Foreign Language Study / GeneralForeign Language Study / Creole LanguagesLanguage Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & ComparativeLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SociolinguisticsSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN11084858129781108485814
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iNGoDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Introduction 1.1. Why this book? Of all the Afro-Hispanic languages of the Americas (AHLAs), the one that more than any other has puzzled linguists interested in the origin and evolution of these contact varieties is definitively Choco Spanish (CS) (McWhorter 2000; Lipski 2005). CS is the dialect spoken by the inhabitants of the Department of Choco, Colombia, a region where blacks represent more than ninety percent of today's total population (DANE 2005) and consist of the descendants of the slaves taken to this region during colonial times to work the rich gold mines of the area. Even though CS presents certain morphological and phonological reductions, the grammatical restructuring encountered in this language is not as intense as the one found in Palenquero, a Spanish creole spoken in San Basilio de Palenque, Department of Bolivar (Colombia) or in the many other European-based creoles spoken in the Americas (i.e., Jamaican English, Haitian French, etc.). At first glance, this may appear a bit surprising, since the conditions that have generally been held to be responsible for the creolization of other European languages in the Americas appear to have also been in place in colonial Choco, namely: (a) a high number of African-born slaves proceeding from all over the Western African coast, (b) a huge disproportion of blacks-to-whites, (c) extreme working conditions in gold mines, (d) a difficult-to-access region, isolated from the rest of Spanish- speaking Colombia (McWhorter 2000: 9)"--