Iberian imperialism and language evolution in Latin America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mufwene, Salikoko S. (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Indigenous peoples > Latin America > Language > History. Spanish language > Latin America > Influence on foreign languages. Portuguese language > Latin America > Influence on foreign languages. Spanish language > Latin America > History. Portuguese language > Latin America > History. Languages in contact > Latin America. Latin America > Colonial influence. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Latin America: a linguistic curiosity from the point of view of colonization and the ensuing language contacts / Salikoko S. Mufwene
The many facets of Spanish dialect diversification in Latin America / John M. Lipski
Amerindian language islands in Brazil / Hildo Honorio do Couto
Historical development of Nheengatu (lingua geral amazonica) / Denny Moore
Language and conquest: Tupi-Guarani expansion in the European colonization of Brazil and Amazonia / Kittiya Lee
African descendants' rural vernacular Portuguese and its contribution to understanding the development of Brazilian Portuguese / Heliana Mello
Brazilian Portuguese and the ecology of (post- )colonial Brazil / J. Clancy Clements
Maya and Spanish in Yucatan: an example of continuity and change / Barbara Pfeiler
Standard colonial Quechua / Alan Durston
Linguistic subjectivity in ecologies of Amazonian language change / Christopher Ball
The ecology of language evolution in Latin America: a Haitian postscript toward a postcolonial sequel / Michel Degraff.