Marta Viada Bellido de Luna
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marta Viada Bellido de Luna plays a role.
Articles
2012 Marginalized peoples, racialized slavery and the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles, Faraclas, Nicholas (ed.), pp. 1–40 | Article
A comparison of some of the assumptions that underpin current debates among linguists over the emergence of creole languages with some of those that undergird recent debates among historians over the emergence of racialized slavery reveals some common biases that render both of limited utility in… read more
2012 Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis: Sociétés de cohabitation and the Founder Principle Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles, Faraclas, Nicholas (ed.), pp. 215–224 | Article
The tendencies toward decontextualization, mono-causal scenarios, and the erasure of the agency of marginalized peoples that have been identified and criticized in the preceding chapters are more often than not due more to the outmoded paradigm of science within which most linguists and other… read more
2012 Linguistic evidence for the influence of indigenous Caribbean grammars on the grammars of the Atlantic Creoles Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles, Faraclas, Nicholas (ed.), pp. 111–148 | Article
The now extinct indigenous languages of the insular Caribbean belonged to the North Arawakan sub-family. Given that no written grammatical descriptions seem to have survived of these languages, one of the only ways to gain some idea of what constituted their grammatical features is to make a… read more
2012 Indigenous peoples and the emergence of the Caribbean Creoles Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles, Faraclas, Nicholas (ed.), pp. 81–110 | Article
Contrary to most of the dominant discourses on Caribbean history, a close and critical re-examination and re-analysis of historical, archaeological, genetic, and other evidence suggests that the indigenous peoples of the insular Caribbean and their descendants were in the right places, at the right… read more