Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
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Sandro Sessarego
Language
EnglishAbstract
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 the questions raised by McWhorter’s book on The Missing Spanish Creoles, the current study has focused on an aspect of the European colonial enterprise in the Americas that has never been closely analyzed in relation to the evolution of Afro-European contact varieties, the legal regulations of black slavery. This book proposes the 'Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis', which ascribes a prime importance in the development of Afro-European languages in the Americas to the historical evolution of slavery, from the legal rules contained in the Roman Corpus Juris Civilis to the codes and regulations implemented in the different European colonies overseas. This research was carried out with the belief that creole studies will benefit greatly from a more interdisciplinary approach, capable of combining linguistic, socio-historical, legal, and anthropological insights. This study is meant to represent an eclectic step in such a direction.
Keywords
Creole languages; Theoretical linguistics; Contact linguistics; SpanishDOI
10.1075/cll.51Webshop link
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09209026Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing CompanyPublisher website
https://benjamins.comPublication date and place
2015Grantor
Series
Creole Language Library,Classification
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