"This interdisciplinary volume explores the unique role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the varieties of Spanish worldwide. Recognizing the inherent intersectionality of social and historical factors, the book's eight chapters investigate phenomena ranging from forms of address and personal(ized) infinitives to clitics and sibilant systems, extending from Majorca to Mexico, from Panamanian Congo speech to Afro-Andean vernaculars. The volume is particularly recommended for scholars interested in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, history, sociology, and anthropology in the Spanish-speaking world. Additionally, it will serve as an indispensable guide to students, both at the undergraduate and graduate level, investigating sociohistorical advances in Spanish"--.

• Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• New perspectives on Spanish socio-historical linguistics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous research on isolation and contact
  • 3. Motivations for the present volume
  • 4. Chapters within the volume
  • 5. The intersectionality of isolation and contact
  • References
• Section I. Socio-historical features in isolation and contact
  • Complexification of the early modern Spanish address system: A role for koineization?
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. What is koineization?
    • 3. Koineization in early modern Spain and the new world
    • 4. Forms of address in koineization
    • 5. Complexification of the early modern Spanish address system
    • 6. Actuation of changes in the address pronoun system(s)
      • 6.1 Setting the stage: Change in 15th-century court society and address
      • 6.2 Early modern developments
    • 7. Conclusion: A role for koineization?
    • References
  • Personal vs. personalized infinitives in Ibero-Romance: Historical origins and contact-induced change
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Defining personal and personalized infinitives in Ibero-Romance
    • 3. Syntax of infinitivals with subjects
      • 3.1 Government and control
      • 3.2 Licensing and abstract agreement, and coreference with PRO
    • 4. Theories of contact, convergence, and divergence: Koineization in Galician and Asturian
    • 5. History and distribution of personal infinitives: Portuguese and Galician
      • 5.1 Creative argument
      • 5.2 Analogy argument
      • 5.3 Latin imperfect subjunctive argument
      • 5.4 Assimilation and dissimilation in Galician: Effects of contact with Castilian
    • 6. The history and syntax of personalized infinitives: Castilian and Asturian
      • 6.1 Castilian
      • 6.2 Asturian
      • 6.3 Contact with Castilian and koineization in Asturian
    • 7. Conclusion
    • References
  • Language variation and change through an experimental lens: Contextual modulation in the use of the Progressive in three Spanish dialects
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Communicative situations, context and linguistic markers
    • 3. The meanings of the Progressive and the Imperfective
    • 4. Spanish diachronic and synchronic facts
    • 5. A questionnaire study on the event-in-progress reading
    • 6. Real-time interpretation of an event-in-progress reading: An SPR study
    • 7. Results
      • 7.1 Behavioral results
      • 7.2 Reading time results
    • 8. Discussion
    • 9. Conclusion
    • References
  • Adult language and dialect learning as simultaneous environmental triggers for language change in Spanish
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Language contact vs. dialect contact
    • 3. Contact among systems vs. contact among speakers: Language acquisition and language change from an evolutionary-ecological perspective
    • 4. Early colonial Spanish sibilants
      • 4.1 The internal ecology of ECS fricative sibilants
      • 4.2 The external ecology of the early Spanish American colonies
      • 4.3 Acquisition of sibilants in ECS from a cross-linguistic perspective
      • 4.4 Towards a new account of ECS sibilants: The role of adult language learning
    • 5. Object Pronoun paradigms in Medieval Southern Iberian Castilian (MSIC)
      • 5.1 The internal ecology of MSIC clitics
      • 5.2 The external ecology of MSIC clitics
      • 5.3 Acquisition of clitics in MSIC from a cross-linguistic perspective
      • 5.4 Towards a new account of MSIC clitics: The role of adult language learning
    • 6. Conclusion: Individuals as agents of language change
    • References
• Section II. Socio-historical varieties in isolation and contact
  • Searching for the sociolinguistic history of Afro-Panamanian Congo speech
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Afro-Panamanian Congo speech and culture
    • 3. When and where did Congo language first emerge?
    • 4. To what extent does Congo language reflect earlier Afro-Hispanic pidginized speech?
    • 5. To what extent was – and is – Congo language used for effective communication?
    • 6. Conclusions: In search of the Congo sociolinguistic trajectory
    • References
    • Appendix. Transcribed examples of Congo speech
  • A socio-historical perspective on the origin and evolution of two Afro-Andean vernaculars
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Decreolization and Afro-Andean Spanish
    • 3. A sociohistorical sketch of black slavery in the Andes
      • 3.1 First arrivals (16th century–mid-17th century)
      • 3.2 The second wave (mid-17th century-last decades of the 18th century)
      • 3.3 The gradual path to emancipation (last decades of the 18th century–present)
    • 4. A closer look at YS and CS
      • 4.1 Yungas, Bolivia
      • 4.2 Chota Valley, Ecuador
    • 5. Final remarks
    • Acknowledgments
    • References
  • Vamos en Palma ‘we are going to Palma’: On the persistence (and demise) of a contact feature in the Spanish of Majorca
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Data and methodology
    • 3. Directional uses of en
    • 4. Looking for the source of Majorcan Spanish directional en
      • 4.1 Majorcan Catalan
      • 4.2 Simplification and hypergeneralization
      • 4.3 Historical data
    • 5. On the historical continuity of directional en
    • 6. Summary and conclusions
    • Acknowledgments
    • Funding
    • References
  • Anthroponymic perseverance of Spanish vestigial
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The evolution of Spanish
      • 2.1 in vestigial variants of personal names
      • 2.2 Socio-cultural significance of in México and broader valorizations
    • 3. Methods
    • 4. Results
    • 5. Discussion
    • 6. Conclusion
    • References
• Index of subjects
• Index of varieties, languages, and language families