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Record Nr.

UNINA9910525627003321

Autore

Sessarego Sandro

Titolo

Afro-Peruvian Spanish : Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles / / Sandro Sessarego

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-272-6776-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Creole Language Library, , 0920-9026

Disciplina

467.985

Soggetti

Spanish language - Dialects - Peru

Spanish language - Dialects - Peru - Chincha

Spanish language - Peru - Foreign elements - African

African languages - Influence on Spanish

Black people - Peru - Languages

Black people - Peru - History

Chincha (Peru) Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to the questions raised by McWhorter's book on The Missing Spanish Creoles, the current study has focused on an aspect of the European colonial enterprise in the Americas that has never been closely analyzed in relation to the evolution of Afro-European contact varieties, the legal regulations of black slavery. This book proposes the 'Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis', which ascribes a prime importance in the development of Afro-European languages in the Americas to the historical evolution of slavery, from the legal rules contained in the Roman Corpus Juris Civilis to the codes and regulations implemented in the different European colonies overseas.



This research was carried out with the belief that creole studies will benefit greatly from a more interdisciplinary approach, capable of combining linguistic, socio-historical, legal, and anthropological insights. This study is meant to represent an eclectic step in such a direction.