EAN: 9783111120768

POSTCOLONIAL LANGUAGE VARIETIES IN THE AMERICAS...

In the Americas  both indigenous and postcolonial languages today bear witness of massive
changes that have taken place since the colonial era. However  a unified approach to languages
from different colonial areas is still missing. The present volume studies postcolonial
varieties that emerged due to changing linguistic and sociolinguistic conditions in different
settings across the Americas. The studies cover indigenous languages that are undergoing
lexical and grammatical change due to the presence of colonial languages and the emergence of
new dialects and creoles due to contact. The contributions showcase the diversity of approaches
to tackle fundamental questions regarding the processes triggered by language contact as well
as the wide range of outcomes contact has had in postcolonial settings. The volume adds to the
documentation of the linguistic properties of postcolonial language varieties in a
socio-historically informed framework. It explores the complex dynamics of extra-linguistic
factors that brought about the processes of language change in them and contributes to a better
understanding of the determinant factors that lead to the emergence and evolution of such
codes.

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