Home / People / Affiliates / Armin Schwegler
Armin Schwegler
Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Director of Global Cultures, University of California, Irvine
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Irvine
Humanities Hall 322
Irvine, CA 92697-5275 (U.S.A.)
Phone: (814) 865-1122
Fax: (814)-863-3759
E-mail: aschwegl@uci.edu
Lab Affiliation: Language Development in Diverse Context
Research Interests:
Afro-Hispanic language and culture, Spanish creoles (esp. Palenquero), Spanish dialectology (Latin America), Black ritual language
Editorial Positions:
Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana (RILI)
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JPCL)
Lengua y sociedad en el mundo hispano (LENSO)
Recent Publications:
Books/Monographs:
2002 “El vocabulario (ritual) bantú de Cuba. Parte I: Acerca de la matriz africana de la ‘lengua congo’ en El Monte y Vocabulario Congo de Lydia Cabrera. / Parte II: Apéndices 1-2.” In La Romania americana. Procesos lingüísticos en situaciones de contacto, ed. Norma Díaz, Ralph Ludwig & Stefan Pfänder, pp. 97-194. Frankfurt:Vervuert Verlag / Madrid: Iberoamericana.
2005 Lengua y ritos del Palo Monte Mayombe: dioses cubanos y sus fuentes africanas. Frankfurt: Vervuert Verlag / Madrid: Iberoamericana. [Co-authored with Jesús Fuentes]
2007 Fonética y fonología españolas: teoría y práctica, 3d ed. (completely revised edition; co-authored with Juergen Kempff). New York: John Wiley & Sons. [Exercises, Sound Files, Practice Exams and Answer Key are published on-line, i.e. www.wiley.com/college/Schwegler].
Articles:
2000 “On the (sensational) survival of Kikongo in 20th-century Cuba”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:159-164.
2000 “The African vocabulary of Palenque (Colombia). Part 1: Introduction and corpus of previously undocumented Afro-Palenquerisms”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Language 15:241-312.
2001 “The myth of decreolization: The anomalous case of Palenquero.” Degrees of restructuring in creole languages, ed. Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh & Edgar Schneider, pp. 409-436. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2002 “El vocabulario (ritual) bantú de Cuba. Parte I: Acerca de la matriz africana de la ‘lengua congo’ en El Monte y Vocabulario Congo de Lydia Cabrera. / Parte II: Apéndices 1-2.” In La Romania americana. Procesos lingüísticos en situaciones de contacto, ed. Norma Díaz, Ralph Ludwig & Stefan Pfänder, pp. 97-194. Frankfurt:Vervuert Verlag / Madrid: Iberoamericana. [Part I of this study was also published in América Negra (see #24 above].
2002 “Creolistics in Latin America: Past, present, and future.” In Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in the 21st century, ed. Glenn Gilbert, pp. 121-171. Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang.
2003 “Vernacular Spanish in a microcosm: Kateyano in El Palenque de San Basilio (Colombia).” [co-authored with Thomas Morton]. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana (RILI) 1:97-159.
2002 “On the (African) origins of Palenquero subject pronouns”. Diachronica 19 (2):273-332.
2003 “Einige Antworten der Kreolistik an die Hispanistik”. Portugiesisch in der Diaspora. Vorträge zum 4. Deutschen Lusitanistentag an der Universität Mainz (2001), ed. Dieter Messner & Matthias Perl, pp. 22-42. Germersheim: CELA (Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos).
2003 “The linguistic geography of criollo in Spanish America: a case of enigmatic extension and restriction.” In A Pepper-Pot of Cultures: Aspects of Creolization in the Caribbean, ed. Gordon R. Collier & Ulrich Fleischmann, pp. 45-65. Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi.
2006 “Palenquero”. Encyclopedia entry in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, vol. 9, pp. 131-134, 2nd ed. edited by Keith Brown Oxford: Elsevier.
2006 Bozal Spanish: Captivating new evidence from a contemporary source (Afro-Cuban “Palo Monte”). In Studies in Contact Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert, ed. Janet Fuller and Linda L. Thornburg, pages 71-101. New York: Peter Lang.
2006 “Bantu elements in Palenque (Colombia): anthropological, archeological and linguistic evidence”. In African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora, ed. Jay B. Haviser & Kevin C. MacDonald, pp. 204-222. London: University College London Press.
forthcoming “Palenquero (Creole Spanish)”. [co-authored with Kate Green]. To appear in Comparative creole syntax, ed. John Holm & Peter Patrick. London: Battlebridge Publications.
forthcoming Intonation in Palenquero. To appear in Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Co-authored with José Ignacio Hualde.
forthcoming “Introducción”. Una lengua en la diáspora: el judeoespañol de Oriente. Special issue on “Judeo-Spanish in the Diaspora” of Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana (RILI) 7 (2006). Co-authored with Yvette Bürki and Beatrice Schmid, Universität Basel.
forthcoming “A fresh consensus in the making: Plural MA and bare nouns in Palenquero.” To appear in Language contact and language change in the Caribbean and beyond — Lenguas en contacto y cambio lingüístico en el Caribe y más allá. Edited by Wiltrud Mihatsch and Monika Sokol. Bern: Peter Lang. — A slightly revised version will also be published in Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A Multi-faceted Approach, ed. Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron. The Creole Language Library. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [scheduled date of publication: 2007]
forthcoming “Black ritual insulting in the Americas: On the art of ‘vociferar’ (Colombia), ‘vacilar’ (Ecuador) and ‘snapping’, ‘sounding’ or ‘playing the dozens’ (U.S.A.)”. Forthcoming in Indiana (journal published by Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin).