Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America
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Preface
1 Latin America: A Linguistic Curiosity from the Point of View of Colonization and the Ensuing Language Contacts
Salikoko S. Mufwene
2 The Many Facets of Spanish Dialect Diversifi cation in Latin America
John M. Lipski
3 Amerindian Language Islands in Brazil
Hildo Honório do Couto
4 Historical Development of Nheengatu (Língua Geral Amazônica)
Denny Moore
5 Language and Conquest: Tupi-Guarani Expansion in the European Colonization of Brazil and Amazonia
M. Kittiya Lee
6 African Descendants’ Rural Vernacular Portuguese and Its Contribution to Understanding the Development of Brazilian Portuguese
Heliana Mello
7 Brazilian Portuguese and the Ecology of (Post-)Colonial Brazil
J. Clancy Clements
8 Maya and Spanish in Yucatán: An Example of Continuity and Change
Barbara Pfeiler
9 Standard Colonial Quechua
Alan Durston
10 Linguistic Subjectivity in Ecologies of Amazonian Language Change
Christopher Ball
11 The Ecology of Language Evolution in Latin America: A Haitian Postscript toward a Postcolonial Sequel
Michel DeGraff
Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index
Language and Linguistics: Anthropological/Sociological Aspects of Language | Language History and Language Universals
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