Hispanisation : the impact of Spanish on the lexicon and grammar of the indigenous languages of Austronesia and the Americas / edited by Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker, Rosa Salas Palomo
Frontmatter; Contents; Hispanisation in Colonial Nahuatl?; The Hispanisation of modern Nahuatl varieties; From language mixing to mixed language via purism? Spanish in contact with Zapotec (Oaxaca/Mexico); Hispanisms in Kuna; Spanish lexical borrowing in Imbabura Quichua: In search of constraints on language contact; Spanish prepositions in Media Lengua: Redefining relexification; Reversing Hispanisation on Rapa Nui (Easter Island); The old, the new and the in-between: Comparative aspects of Hispanisation on the Marianas and Easter Island (Rapa Nui); Hispanisation processes in the Philippines
Summary
Literally hundreds of languages world-wide have experienced direct or indirect Hispanisation during the heyday of the Spanish colonial empire. The number of languages which continue to borrow from Spanish on a daily basis is considerable especially in Latin America. This volume℗¡gives the reader a better idea of the range of contact constellations in which Spanish functions as the donor language. Moreover, the contributions to this collection of articles demonstrate that it is not only possible to compare the contact-induced processes in the (Hispanised) languages of Austronesia and the America