Hispanisation―The Impact of Spanish on the Lexicon and Grammar of the Indigenous Languages of Austronesia and the Americas

Stolz (Bremen U.), Bakker (Universities of Amsterdam and Lancaster), and Palomo (U. of Guam) present a collection ten papers focusing on aspects of Hispanization in the indigenous languages of the Americas and Austronesia. The chapters are derived from contributions to a May 2005 international conference held at the U. of Bremen examining the impact of French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish on the autochthonous languages of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Austronesia. A sampling of topics: the Hispanization of modern Nahuatl varieties, Hispanisms in Kuna, Spanish lexical borrowing in Imbabura Quichua, reversing Hispanization on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Hispanization processes in the Philippines, and attitudes of native speakers of modern Chamoru toward Hispanisms. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Thomas Stolz, Universitat Bremen, Germany; Dik Bakker, Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Rosa Salas Palomo, Micronesean Language Center, Guam.