Literally hundreds of languages world-wide have experienced direct
or indirect Hispanisation during the heyday of the Spanish colonial
empire. The number of languages which continue to borrow from
Spanish on a daily basis is considerable especially in Latin
America. This volume gives the reader a better idea of the range of
contact constellations in which Spanish functions as the donor
language. Moreover, the contributions to this collection of
articles demonstrate that it is not only possible to compare the
contact-induced processes in the (Hispanised) languages of
Austronesia and the Americas. It is emphasized that one can draw
far-reaching conclusions from the presented borrowing facts for the
theory of language contact in general. The volume is divided into
two sections according to geographical principles: section I is
devoted to contacts of Spanish in Latin America. Two contributions
look at the Hispanisation of varieties of Nahuatl (Classical
Nahuatl studied by Anne Jensen and modern varieties studied by Jose
Antonio Flores Farfan). Martina Schrader-Kniffki discusses
Spanish-Zapotec contacts and their relations to language mixing and
purism. Luciano Giannelli and Raoul Zamponi address the issue of
Hispanisms in Kuna, a language from Panama. For South America,
Jorge Gomez-Rendon discusses whether or not there are constraints
on lexical borrowing from Spanish into Imbabura Quichua. Suzanne
Dikker studies the intertwined language Media Lengua in her attempt
at redefining the notion of relexification. Section II focuses on
the impact of Spanish on the languages of Austronesia and
South-East Asia. Steven Roger Fischer shows that the heavy
Hispanisation of Rapanui is currently being reverted. Steve Pagel
compares Hispanisation processes and their results in the Mariana
Islands and on Rapa Nui. The second comparative study is by Patrick
O. Steinkruger who reviews a variety of Philippinian languages and
their degrees of Hispanisation. The attitudes of native speakers of
Chamorro as to Hispanisms is the topic of the study by Rosa Salas
Palomo and Thomas Stolz. The volume is especially interesting for
students of language contact. But also scholars with a background
in Romance linguistics or Hispanic philology will find the
assembled articles very useful, as well as Austronesianists and
Amerindianists.
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