This article deals with the textual study referring to Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, one of the survivors of the adventure that took place between Florida and Nueva Galicia, from which Cabeza de Vaca composed the renowned chronicle Naufragios. The documentation is constituted by peninsular and novohispanic manuscripts, with three autographic letters by this man from Salamanca, born in 1500, who took part in the colonization of that territory, and immersed in the Mexican sociocultural environment, whose northern Spanish turned out to be coloured by Andalusian traits. Curious and early example of linguistic creolization.
Keywords:
documentation and American Spanish, dialectal and ethnic mixture, andalusianism in América, linguistic creolization
Frago, J. A. (2018). Castillo Maldonado, from his "naufragios y peregrinaje" to a novohispanic settler. Biography and linguistic creolization. Boletín De Filología, 52(2), pp. 59–97. Retrieved from https://sintesisdejurisprudencia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/48597
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