In the Americas, both indigenous and postcolonial languages today
bear witness of massive changes that have taken place since the
colonial era. However, a unified approach to languages from
different colonial areas is still missing. The present volume
studies postcolonial varieties that emerged due to changing
linguistic and sociolinguistic conditions in different settings
across the Americas. The studies cover indigenous languages that
are undergoing lexical and grammatical change due to the presence
of colonial languages and the emergence of new dialects and creoles
due to contact. The contributions showcase the diversity of
approaches to tackle fundamental questions regarding the processes
triggered by language contact as well as the wide range of outcomes
contact has had in postcolonial settings. The volume adds to the
documentation of the linguistic properties of postcolonial language
varieties in a socio-historically informed framework. It explores
the complex dynamics of extra-linguistic factors that brought about
the processes of language change in them and contributes to a
better understanding of the determinant factors that lead to the
emergence and evolution of such codes.
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