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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 February 2010
      10 March 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511627811
      9780521822657
      9780521115582
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627811
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.72kg, 376 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 376 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, Other Languages and Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
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    The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. In this 2004 book, John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America over the last 500 years. As well as discussing pronunciation, morphology and syntax, he separates legitimate forms of Afro-Hispanic expression from those that result from racist stereotyping, to assess how contact with the African diaspora has had a permanent impact on contemporary Spanish. A principal issue is the possibility that Spanish, in contact with speakers of African languages, may have creolized and restructured - in the Caribbean and perhaps elsewhere - permanently affecting regional and social varieties of Spanish today. The book is accompanied by the largest known anthology of primary Afro-Hispanic texts from Iberia, Latin America, and former Afro-Hispanic contacts in Africa and Asia.

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    "...this book is extremely well written, meticulously researched, complete in its descriptions and extremely useful for anyone wishing to delve into the current problems of African influences in Spanish and Portuguese. Once again John Lipski is to be congratulated for another outstanding contribution to the field of Hispanic linguistics."
    William Megenney, University of Southern California, Reviews/Recensions

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