On the importance of legal history to Afro-Hispanic linguistics and creole studies

• Sandro Sessarego ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Texas at Austin

     University of Texas at Austin

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 202, 2018, págs. 13-23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper claims that legal history has much to offer to the study of the Afro-European languages that developed in the Americas. In particular, it is suggested that a comparative analysis of colonial slave laws may help us better understand why certain colonies were more conducive to the formation/preservation of creole languages than others. This study builds on the recently-proposed Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis (Sessarego, 2015, 2017) and, in so doing, it provides data that weaken the assumptions on which the Afrogenesis Hypothesis was based (McWhorter, 2000).