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Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring

Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring

Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring

Aspects of Afro-Hispanic Linguistics
Volume 168:
Sandro Sessarego, University of Texas, Austin
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168
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9781108987189
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    The Afro-Hispanic Languages of the Americas (AHLAs) present a number of grammatical similarities that have traditionally been ascribed to a previous creole stage. Approaching creole studies from contrasting standpoints, this groundbreaking book provides a new account of these phenomena. How did these features come about? What linguistic mechanisms can account for their parallel existence in several contact varieties? How can we formalize such mechanisms within a comprehensive theoretical framework? How can these new datasets help us test and refine current formal theories, which have primarily been based on standardized language data? In addressing these important questions, this book not only casts new light on the nature of the AHLAs, it also provides new theoretical and methodological perspectives for a more integrated approach to the study of contact-driven restructuring across language interfaces and linguistic domains.

    • Uses an interdisciplinarity approach, cross-fertilizing ideas and methodologies from a number of fields, such as second language acquisition, creolistics, generative theory, sociolinguistics and social history
    • Combines multifaceted fieldwork techniques with current theoretical proposals on the nature of linguistic interfaces, language processing and sociolinguistic dynamics
    • The findings proceeding from the current study can now be applied and tested on other contact scenarios.

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    9781108987189
    188 pages
    229 × 152 × 10 mm
    0.283kg

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Questioning a Long-Lasting Assumption in the Field
    • 2. The African Diaspora to the Andes and its Linguistic Consequences
    • 3. Reconciling Formalism and Language Variation
    • 4. Variable Phi-Agreement across the Determiner Phrase
    • 5. Partial Pro-Drop Phenomena
    • 6. Early-Peak Alignment and Duplication of Boundary Tone Configurations
    • 7. Final Considerations
    • References
    • Index.