Chota Valley Spanish

Chota Valley Spanish......Page 1
Página legal......Page 7
Table of contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 10
Dedication......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
1.1. Objectives of this study......Page 16
1.3. Data collection and methodology......Page 17
2.1. On the scarcity of Spanish creoles in the Americas......Page 20
2.2 A sociohistorical sketch of slavery in Ecuador......Page 24
2.2.1. First phase (1530-1680)......Page 27
2.2.2. Second phase (1680-1770)......Page 31
2.2.3. Third phase (1770-1964)......Page 35
2.3.2. The transition phase (1610-1680)......Page 38
2.3.3. The jesuit phase (1680-1767)......Page 42
2.4. Conclusions......Page 54
3.1. Phonetic account of Ecuadorian Spanish......Page 58
3.2. Phonetic account of Chota Valley Spanish......Page 60
3.3. Conclusions......Page 69
4.1. Noun Phrase......Page 70
4.2. Verb Phrase......Page 76
4.3. Prepositional Phrase......Page 80
4.4. Phrase-level constructions......Page 81
4.5. Conclusions......Page 83
5.1. Lexical items......Page 84
5.2. Conclusions......Page 86
6.0. Introduction......Page 88
6.1. On Monogenesis......Page 89
6.2. On De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute......Page 92
6.3. Schwegler’s (1999) hypothesis. CVS as a decreolized Afro-Portuguese creole......Page 93
6.4. McWhorter’s (2000) hypothesis. CVS as a missing Spanish creole......Page 95
6.5. Sociohistorical remarks......Page 98
6.6. The linguistic nature of present-day CVS......Page 100
6.7. A closer look at the ‘monogenetic features’......Page 101
6.8. Early Afro-Hispanic linguistic insights from De Instauranda......Page 104
6.9. Conclusions......Page 110
Bibliography......Page 112
Appendix. Pictures of Chota Valley......Page 122