Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Latin America: A Linguistic Curiosity from the Point of View of Colonization and the Ensuing Language Contacts 1
5. 2. The Many Facets of Spanish Dialect Diversification in Latin America 38
6. 3. Amerindian Language Islands in Brazil 76
7. 4. Historical Development of Nheengatu (Língua Geral Amazônica) 108
8. 5. Language and Conquest: Tupi-Guarani Expansion in the European Colonization of Brazil and Amazonia 143
9. 6. African Descendants’ Rural Vernacular Portuguese and Its Contribution to Understanding the Development of Brazilian Portuguese 168
10. 7. Brazilian Portuguese and the Ecology of (Post-)Colonial Brazil 186
11. 8. Maya and Spanish in Yucatán: An Example of Continuity and Change 205
12. 9. Standard Colonial Quechua 225
13. 10. Linguistic Subjectivity in Ecologies of Amazonian Language Change 244
14. 11. The Ecology of Language Evolution in Latin America: A Haitian Postscript toward a Postcolonial Sequel 274
15. Contributors 329
16. Subject Index 333
17. Author Index 341