Chota Valley Spanish

Chota Valley Spanish

Based on fieldwork research, this book provides a linguistic description of Chota Valley Spanish, an Afro-Hispanic language of Northern Ecuador, by exploring several aspects of its lexicon, morphosyntax, phonetics and phonology.

  • Cover
    • TABLE OF CONTENTS
    • List of figures
    • List of maps
    • List of tables
    • Dedication
    • Acknowledgments
    • Chapter 1: Introduction
      • 1.0. General introduction
      • 1.1. Objectives of this study
      • 1.2. Organization of the volume
      • 1.3. Data collection and methodology
    • Chapter 2: A sociohistorical account of slavery in Ecuador
      • 2.0. Introduction
      • 2.1. Afro-Hispanic contact varieties and the relative scarcity of Spanish creoles
      • 2.2. A sociohistorical sketch of slavery in Ecuador
        • 2.2.1. First phase (1530-1680)
        • 2.2.2. Second phase (1680-1770)
        • 2.2.3. Third phase (1770-1964)
      • 2.3. Chota Valley
        • 2.3.1. The indigenous phase (until 1610)
        • 2.3.2. The transition phase (1610-1680)
        • 2.3.3. The Jesuit phase (1680-1767)
      • 2.4. Conclusions
    • Chapter 3: Phonetics and phonology
      • 3.0. Introduction
      • 3.1. Phonetic account of Ecuadorian Spanish
      • 3.2. Phonetic account of Chota Valley Spanish
      • 3.3. Conclusions
    • Chapter 4: Morphosyntax
      • 4.0. Introduction
      • 4.1. Noun Phrase
      • 4.2. Verb Phrase
      • 4.3. Prepositional Phrase
      • 4.4. Phrase-level constructions
      • 4.5. Conclusions
    • Chapter 5: Lexicon
      • 5.0. Introduction
      • 5.1. Lexical items
      • 5.2. Conclusions
    • Chapter 6: The status of Chota Valley Spanish
      • 6.0. Introduction
      • 6.1. On Monogenesis
      • 6.2. On De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute
      • 6.3. Schwegler’s (1999) hypothesis: CVS as a decreolized Afro-Portuguese creole
      • 6.4. McWhorter’s (2000) hypothesis: CVS as a missing Spanish creole
      • 6.5. A few sociohistorical remarks
      • 6.6. The linguistic nature of present-day CVS
      • 6.7. A closer look at the ‘monogenetic’ features
      • 6.8. Early Afro-Hispanic linguistic insights from De Instauranda
      • 6.9. Conclusions
    • Bibliography
    • Appendix: Pictures of Chota Valley

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