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Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring
  • Aspects of Afro-Hispanic Linguistics
  • Volume 168
  • Sandro Sessarego
  • Published online:
    21 October 2021
    Print publication:
    04 November 2021
  • 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.

  • 9 - English in the Caribbean and the Central American Rim

  • from Part II - World Englishes Old and New
  • Edited by Daniel Schreier, Universität Zürich, Marianne Hundt, Universität Zürich, Edgar W. Schneider, Universität Regensburg, Germany
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes
    Published online:
    16 December 2019
    Print publication:
    02 January 2020, pp 185-209

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses “newer” (i.e. in the last 400 years or less) varieties of English spoken in the Caribbean, in particular the relationship between the Caribbean and Central American varieties on the western edge of the Caribbean. It also presents a short discussion of the influences that have shaped these varieties and various popular heuristics for imagining their emergence as well as a description of the geographical locations in the Caribbean where these varieties are spoken. The social contexts of their emergence are also discussed as well as a grammatical sketch pointing out similarities and differences and a discussion of several theoretical issues of relevance to the field.