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As colonization came to a close and during the age of independence (1810–1910), a succession of republics in the Americas declared their autonomy by pushing for a nationalist agenda. Spanish was an essential agglutinating force in the shaping of these national identities.
Mar 19, 2013 · The Spanish language has been a fixture of the United States for centuries. Florida and the southwestern states were first colonized by Iberian soldiers and missionaries, who brought the Spanish language with them from the Iberian Peninsula.
Nov 14, 2016 · Using digital tools and literature to explore the evolution of the Spanish language, Stanford researcher Cuauhtémoc García-García reveals a new historical perspective on linguistic changes in Latin America and Spain. How has the Spanish language evolved in the hundreds of years it has been spoken on multiple continents?
An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s.
Sep 17, 2021 · This chapter focuses on the linguistic input to American varieties of Spanish. It first explains the Andalucista model, the most widely accepted explanation for the nature of American Spanish, which claims that it is, in essence, an offspring of Andalusian Spanish.
- Volker Noll
- 2021
Such a history of successive and incremental language contacts calls for a periodized ac-count of language evolution, as suggested by Chaudenson (1992, 2002), since the relevant structures were not all in place at the same time, nor did they change overnight and in a wholesale manner.
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As a Haitian and a Haitian Creole–speaking linguist, I was curious as to how language shift, language change, language endangerment, and (meta-)linguistic correlates of social hierarchies in Iberian America may help us better understand related phenomena in the Caribbean, and vice versa.
