A Creole origin for Barlovento Spanish? A linguistic and sociohistorical inquiry
Abstract
ABSTRACT 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 creole genesis.” His thesis is that in the Spanish mainland colonies the disproportion between the Black and White populations was enough for the emergence of a creole language. This article focuses on one colony, Venezuela, and argues that Africans there had as much access to Spanish as they did in islands such as Cuba. Based on this fact, the relevant linguistic evidence is analyzed. The most important contribution of this study is the discussion of the Spanish crown's monopolization of the slave trade, which kept the Black/White ratio relatively low in certain Spanish colonies until the end of the 18th century. Until now, this part of the puzzle has been absent in the discussion of the missing Spanish creoles.
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Manuel Díaz‐Campos, Joseph Clancy Clements (2008). A Creole origin for Barlovento Spanish? A linguistic and sociohistorical inquiry. Language in Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404508080548
@article{manuel2008a,
title = {A Creole origin for Barlovento Spanish? A linguistic and sociohistorical inquiry},
author = {Díaz‐Campos, Manuel and Clements, Joseph Clancy},
year = {2008},
journal = {Language in Society},
doi = {10.1017/s0047404508080548}
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