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  • 1 - Introduction: English and Spanish in Contact – World Languages in Interaction

  • Edited by Danae Perez, Marianne Hundt, Johannes Kabatek, Daniel Schreier
  • Book:
    English and Spanish
    Published online:
    17 September 2021
    Print publication:
    30 September 2021, pp 1-9

  • Summary

    With the inception of European colonialism during the Renaissance, European languages started to spread around the globe. The prime agents were Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French, with Dutch, German, Russian, Italian, and Danish playing a less important role. As a result of their colonial histories and twentieth-century developments, English and Spanish have become the two most widely spoken post-colonial languages world-wide today. Taken together, recent calculations estimate that they have slightly over 820 million native speakers across the globe (with English contributing around 378 million and Spanish about 442 million). Moreover, the two languages share aspects of their colonial and post-colonial development while, at the same time, showing striking differences in the sociolinguistic and typological developments of their respective offspring varieties. Surprisingly, however, a systematic comparative account of the rise of English and Spanish to their current roles as world languages has not been attempted so far. It is one of the aims of the present volume to fill this gap.

English and Spanish
  • World Languages in Interaction
  • Edited by Danae Perez, Marianne Hundt, Johannes Kabatek, Daniel Schreier
  • Published online:
    17 September 2021
    Print publication:
    30 September 2021
  • This volume compares the evolution and current status of two of the world's major languages, English and Spanish. Parallel chapters trace the emergence of Global English and Spanish and their current status, covering aspects such as language and dialect contact, language typology, norm development in pluricentric languages, and identity construction. Case studies look into the use of English and Spanish on the internet, investigate mixed and alternating lects, as well as ongoing change in Spanish-speaking minorities in the US. The volume thus contributes to current theoretical debates and provides fresh empirical data. While offering an in-depth treatment of the evolution of English and Spanish to the reader, this book introduces the driving factors and the effects of the emergence of world languages in general and is relevant for researchers and students of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and typology alike.

  • 5 - Koinésandscriptae

  • Edited by Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Adam Ledgeway, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages
    Published online:
    05 October 2013
    Print publication:
    24 October 2013, pp 143-186

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses processes of linguistic convergence in medieval Romance: the development of supra-regional spoken varieties and the emergence of supra-individual orthographic conventions. It reserves the terms koiné for spoken supra-regional varieties and koineization for their emergence, whilst recognizing their mutual relationship with convergence processes in the written scriptae. The chapter outlines diachronic areas of convergence or divergence, as certain processes taking place in these areas are to be the focus of attention. It considers the development of koineization tendencies and writing traditions in medieval Romance languages as a whole, and observes certain parallels between the different areas, which enable a classification into different phases to be made. However, these parallels take on quite different shapes in the individual areas. The chapter also presents some remarks on Romance language areas to survey some general aspects, highlighting some of the crucial issues and providing basic bibliographical information.