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This collection of original papers presents current research on
linguistic aspects of the Spanish used in the United States. The
authors examine such topics as language maintenance and language
shift, language choice, the bilingual's discourse patterns,
varieties of Spanish used in the United States, and oral
proficiency testing of bilingual speakers.
In view of the fact that Hispanics constitute the largest
linguistic minority in the United States, the pioneering work in
the area of sociolinguistic issues in the U.S. Spanish presented
here is of great importance.
The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie,
founded by Gustav Groeber in 1905, is among the most renowned
publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of
Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as
the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome
submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all
areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual
criticism. The publication languages of the series are French,
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and
English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in
its contents and in the choice of languages.
Thirty-three million people in the United States speak some variety
of Spanish, making it the second most used language in the country.
Some of these people are recent immigrants from many different
countries who have brought with them the linguistic traits of their
homelands, while others come from families who have lived in this
country for hundreds of years. John M. Lipski traces the importance
of the Spanish language in the United States and presents an
overview of the major varieties of Spanish that are spoken there.
"Varieties of Spanish in the United States" provides - in a single
volume - useful descriptions of the distinguishing characteristics
of the major varieties, from Cuban and Puerto Rican, through
Mexican and various Central American strains, to the traditional
varieties dating back to the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries
found in New Mexico and Louisiana.Each profile includes a concise
sketch of the historical background of each Spanish-speaking group;
current demographic information; its sociolinguistic
configurations; and, information about the phonetics, morphology,
syntax, lexicon, and each group's interactions with English and
other varieties of Spanish. Lipski also outlines the scholarship
that documents the variation and richness of these varieties, and
he probes the phenomenon popularly known as 'Spanglish'. The
distillation of an entire academic career spent investigating and
promoting the Spanish language in the United States, this valuable
reference for teachers, scholars, students, and interested
bystanders serves as a testimony to the vitality and legitimacy of
the Spanish language in the United States. It is recommended for
courses on Spanish in the United States, Spanish dialectology and
sociolinguistics, and teaching Spanish to heritage speakers.
Based on extensive fieldwork in the Afro-Bolivian communities, this
book provides a detailed description of this unique and fascinating
Afro-Bolivian dialect.
The 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 restructured - in the
Caribbean and perhaps elsewhere - permanently affecting regional
and social varieties of Spanish today. The book is accompanied by
the largest known anthology of primary Afro-Hispanic texts from
Iberia, Latin America, and former Afro-Hispanic contacts in Africa
and Asia.
The 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 restructured - in the
Caribbean and perhaps elsewhere - permanently affecting regional
and social varieties of Spanish today. The book is accompanied by
the largest known anthology of primary Afro-Hispanic texts from
Iberia, Latin America, and former Afro-Hispanic contacts in Africa
and Asia.
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