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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