Hispanisation (eBook)

The Impact of Spanish on the Lexicon and Grammar of the Indigenous Languages of Austronesia and the Americas

Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker, Rosa Salas Palomo (Herausgeber)

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2008
296 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-020723-1 (ISBN)

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Literally hundreds of languages world-wide have experienced direct or indirect Hispanisation during the heyday of the Spanish colonial empire. The number of languages which continue to borrow from Spanish on a daily basis is considerable especially in Latin America. This volume is meant to give the reader a better idea of the range of contact constellations in which Spanish functions as the donor language. Moreover, the contributions to this collection of articles demonstrate that it is not only possible to compare the contact-induced processes in the (Hispanised) languages of Austronesia and the Americas. It is emphasized that one can draw far-reaching conclusions from the presented borrowing facts for the theory of language contact in general.

Thomas Stolz, Universität Bremen, Germany; Dik Bakker, Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Rosa Salas Palomo, Micronesean Language Center, Guam.

Inhalt

Frontmatter 1
Contents 9
Hispanisation in Colonial Nahuatl? 13
The Hispanisation of modern Nahuatl varieties 37
From language mixing to mixed language via purism? Spanish in contact with Zapotec (Oaxaca/Mexico) 59
Hispanisms in Kuna 87
Spanish lexical borrowing in Imbabura Quichua: In search of constraints on language contact 105
Spanish prepositions in Media Lengua: Redefining relexification 131
Reversing Hispanisation on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) 159
The old, the new and the in-between: Comparative aspects of Hispanisation on the Marianas and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) 177
Hispanisation processes in the Philippines 213
Pro or contra Hispanisms: Attitudes of native speakers of modern Chamoru 247
Backmatter 279

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
• Reihe/Serie: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: language change • Language contact • Language contact, language change, language typology, Spanish. • Language Typology • Spanisch • Spanish. • Sprachkontakt • Sprachwandel
• ISBN-10: 3-11-020723-0 / 3110207230
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-020723-1 / 9783110207231