The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical
origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the …

McWhorter challenges the validity of the limited access model for creole formation, noting
that “the mainland Spanish colonies put in question a model which is crucial to current …

The origins of the Afro-Hispanic Languages of the Americas (AHLAs), the languages that
developed in Latin America from the contact of African languages and Spanish in colonial …

The goal of this chapter is to present a comparative survey of research paradigms involving
Creoles lexified from Spanish, as well as Afro-Hispanic dialects which promise to shed light …

The Caribbean Basin is home to many creole languages, lexically related to French,
English, and–now only vestigially–Dutch. Surrounded by Spanishspeaking nations, and with …

The claim has frequently been made by scholars that Africans in the Spanish Caribbean,
deprived of the opportunity for learning the prevailing dialects of Spanish, developed a …

McWhorter (2000: 38) challenges the validity of the limited access model for Creole genesis,
noting that" the mainland Spanish colonies put in question a model which is crucial to …

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 …

Creole society in colonial Spanish America is commonly defined as a society composed of
Spaniards born in the New World. This definition belies the question of how" Spanishness" …

" Introduction 1.1. Why this book? Of all the Afro-Hispanic languages of the Americas
(AHLAs), the one that more than any other has puzzled linguists interested in the origin and …