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].

2009 4th edition (much revised ) of Fonética y fonología above. New York: John Wiley & Sons. [Exercises, answer keys, and sound files on web]; in collaboration with J. Kempff and A. Ameal-Guerra. Expected date of publication: early 2010.

In Press La lengua ritual “congo” de Cuba (Regla Palo Monte). Co-authored with Jesús Fuentes.

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.

2007 “A fresh consensus in the making: Plural MA and bare nouns in Palenquero.” In Mihatsch, Wiltrud & Sokol, Monika (eds.): Language contact and language change in the Caribbean and beyond — Lenguas en contacto y cambio lingüístico en el Caribe y más allá. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 59-75. — A slightly revised version will appear in Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A Multi-faceted Approach, ed. Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron, 2007, pp. 205-222. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2007 “Palenquero (Creole Spanish)”. [co-authored with Kate Green]. Comparative creole syntax: Parallel outlines of 18 Creole grammars, ed. John Holm & Peter Patrick, pp. 273-306. London: Battlebridge Publications.

2007 “Black ritual insulting in the Americas: On the art of “vociferar” (Colombia), “vacilar” (Ecuador) and “snapping”, “sounding” or “playing the dozens” (U.S.A.). Indiana 24: 105-155.

2008 “Intonation in Palenquero”. Co-authored with José Ignacio Hualde. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23 (1): 1-31.

2008 “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.

2010 “La “lengua” ritual del Palo Monte (Cuba): estudio comparativo (Holguín / Cienfuegos).” [co-authored with Constanza Rojas-Primus]. Forthcoming in Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana (RILI) 15.

forthcoming “Palenquero language structure subdatabase." In: Michaelis, Susanne & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.), Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library, chapter 28. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/feature/28 by 2011)