Edited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 22] 2020
► pp. 11–42
Weinreich (1953) argued that a comprehensive model of language contact must integrate linguistic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic approaches. This paper discusses how such a model can be applied to the contact languages that arose in the Spanish colonies as a result of contact between Spanish and various other languages. These contact languages include close approximations to Peninsular Spanish, Afro-Hispanic varieties, “indigenized” varieties and of course creoles. I argue that all these contact varieties should be amenable to description and analysis within the same framework. To this end, I discuss the ways in which Weinreich’s model of an integrated approach can be linked to a naturalistic second language acquisition (NSLA) account of the formation of the contact varieties of Spanish.