Forthcoming: Afro-Iberian languages: Contact and sociohistory

Luana Lamberti   Ana Lívia Agostinho  

Synopsis

This book introduces several Afro-Iberian languages and varieties created by Africans or their descendants in the Americas and Africa. It is a multilingual handbook that can be used by scholars teaching introductory courses on linguistic contact and creole languages in Brazil, other parts of Latin America, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guiné-Bissau, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, and the US. The chapters will include a sociohistorical overview of the variety's formation, its main linguistic features, its current sociolinguistic situation, language planning and policy, and a final discussion on the variety’s future projection. This is an innovative project because it connects scholarship on Spanish and Portuguese contact languages. Our targeted audience is undergraduate and graduate students from the Global South, who commonly cannot access major publications in Linguistics due to lack of access.

Chapters

  • Introduction
    Luana Lamberti, Ana Lívia Agostinho
  • Gulf of Guinea
    Ana Lívia Agostinho, Manuele Bandeira
  • Upper Guinea
    Shirley Freitas, Fernanda Ziober
  • Caribbean
    Yolanda Rivera Castillo
  • South America
    Estilita Maria Cassiani Obeso
  • Brazil
    Bahia
    Gredson dos Santos
  • Brazil
    São Paulo
    Laura Alvarez Lopez, Juanito Avelar
  • Brazil
    Maranhão
    Wânia Miranda
  • Brazil
    Goiás
    Ana Paulla Braga Mattos
  • São Tomé and Príncipe
    Amanda Macedo Balduino, Gabriel Antunis de Araujo
  • Guiné-Bissau
    Gabriela Braga, Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman
  • Angola
    Libolo
    Eduardo Ferreira dos Santos
  • Angola
    Cabinda
    Miguel Gutiérrez Maté
  • Mozambique
    Ezra Chambal Nhampoca, Calawia Salimo, Victor Justino
  • Bolivia
    Luana Lamberti
  • México
    Sandro Sessarego
  • Perto Rico
    Piero Visconte
  • Colombia
    Alejandro Correa
  • Peru
    Pamela Jimenez
  • Equatorial Guinea
    John Lipski

Biographies

Luana Lamberti

Luana Lamberti is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Iowa State University. She is a sociolinguist and a creolist. Her research focuses on documenting and analyzing contact-induced features of Portuguese and Spanish. She has carried out long-term research in the Helvécia community from Bahia, Brazil, to document Helvécia Afro-Brazilian Portuguese. She has also worked with other Afro-Iberian varieties, such as Afro-Bolivian Spanish and African Portuguese. Her most recent work focuses on how language ideologies affect dialect shift among speakers of minority languages.

Ana Lívia Agostinho

Ana Lívia Agostinho is a Linguistics professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina since 2016. She is a phonologist and creolist, having worked mainly with the languages of the Gulf of Guinea (São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea) and with the Portuguese varieties of São Tomé and Príncipe. She has been carrying out fieldwork in São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea since 2009. She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2019 to 2020. Her current research deals with African features in creoles, mainly tone, and creole phonological typology.

Book cover

Published

April 19, 2023
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Series

Contact and Multilingualism
Cite as
Lamberti, Luana & Agostinho, Ana Lívia (eds.). Forthcoming. Afro-Iberian languages: Contact and sociohistory. (Contact and Multilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Copyright (c) 2023 Luana Lamberti, Ana Lívia Agostinho; Manuele Bandeira, Shirley Freitas, Fernanda Ziober, Yolanda Rivera Castillo, Estilita Maria Cassiani Obeso, Gredson dos Santos, Laura Alvarez Lopez, Juanito Avelar, Wânia Miranda, Ana Paulla Braga Mattos, Amanda Macedo Balduino, Gabriel Antunis de Araujo, John Lipski, Pamela Jimenez, Alejandro Correa, Piero Visconte, Sandro Sessarego, Gabriela Silva, Flaviane Romani Fernandes Svartman, Eduardo Ferreira dos Santos, Miguel Gutiérrez Maté, Ezra Chambal Nhampoca, Calawia Salimo, Victor Justino

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