The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese

The historical spread of Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world provides a rich source of data for linguists studying how languages evolve and change. This volume analyses the development of Portuguese and Spanish from Latin and their subsequent transformation into several non-standard varieties. These varieties include Portuguese- and Spanish-based creoles, Bozal Spanish and Chinese Coolie Spanish in Cuba, Chinese Immigrant Spanish, Andean Spanish, and Barranquenho, a Portuguese variety on the Portugal-Spain border. Clancy Clements demonstrates that grammar formation not only takes place in parent-to-child communication, but also, importantly, in adult-to-adult communication. He argues that cultural identity is also an important factor in language formation and maintenance, especially in the cases of Portuguese, Castilian, and Barranquenho. More generally, the contact varieties of Portuguese and Spanish have been shaped by demographics, by prestige, as well as by linguistic input, general cognitive abilities and limitations, and by the dynamics of speech community.

ISBN 052183175X   Pages 276 ISBN13 9780521831758 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 570 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Series title Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact Publication date 26 Mar 2009   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress 2009000064   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 460.9   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education

		List of figures
		List of maps
		List of tables
1		Language contact, language learning, and language change		1
2		The general socio-historical context of Portuguese and Castilian		28
3		Portuguese- and Spanish-lexified creole languages		42
4		Bozal Spanish of Cuba		68
5		Chinese Coolie Spanish in nineteenth-century Cuba		102
6		Chinese Immigrant Spanish		124
7		Andean Spanish		158
8		Barranquenho		190
9		Contact, cognition, and speech community		210
		Appendix A		218
		Appendix B		224
		Bibliography		239
		Author index		252
		General index		254

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