A History Afro-Hispanic Language Five Centuries Five Continents J… 9780521822657

A History Afro-Hispanic Language Five Centuries Five Continents J… 9780521822657

A History of Afro-Hispanic LanguageFive Centuries, Five Continents\nAuthor(s): John M. Lipski\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521822657, 978-0521822657\nSynopsis\nThe African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. In this 2004 book, John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America over the last 500 years. As well as discussing pronunciation, morphology and syntax, he separates legitimate forms of Afro-Hispanic expression from those that result from racist stereotyping, to assess how contact with the African diaspora has had a permanent impact on contemporary Spanish. A principal issue is the possibility that Spanish, in contact with speakers of African languages, may have creolized and re.

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