Language Change in Contact Languages

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Grammatical and prosodic considerations

J. Clancy Clements Shelome Gooden(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 16. Dezember 2011

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Language Change in Contact Languages
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
Language change in contact languages
1. Introduction
2. The processes of GRR in contact languages
3. Prosody in Creole languages
4. Papers in this volume
4.1 Grammaticalization, reanalysis, and relexification
4.2 Prosody
5. Summary
Note
References
The contribution of relexification, grammaticalisation, and reanalysis to Creole genesis and development
1. Introduction
2. Relexification
2.1 Relexification as relabelling
2.2 Does relabelling apply to functional categories?
2.3 The extent of relabelling across word classes
2.4 Relabelling or transfer?
2.5 Can there be cases of partial relexification?
2.6 Summary
3. Grammaticalisation and reanalysis
3.1 Grammaticalisation
3.2 Reanalysis
3.3 Summary
4. Conclusions
Notes
References
Grammaticalization in creoles
1. Introduction
2. "Ordinary" and "somewhat-less-ordinary" grammaticalization: the Sranan articles
2.1 The Sranan definite articles: Gradual grammaticalization
2.2 The Sranan indefinite singular article: abrupt grammaticalization
3. The role of the substrate: polysemy copying and "apparent" grammaticalization
3.1 Grammaticalization and contact: Heine and Kuteva's classification
3.2 "Apparent" grammaticalization
3.3 Polysemy copying in reverse direction
3.4 "Apparent" grammaticalization plus internal development
4. Reanalysis without grammaticalization
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
One in Singapore English
1. Introduction
2. The data
2.1 The grammar of one
2.2 The use of one
2.3 Summary
3. The explanation
3.1 The substratum
3.2 The superstratum
3.3 Linguistic universals
4. An exemplar-based approach to relexification
5. Conclusion
References
Contact-induced grammaticalization
1. Introduction
2. Contact-induced grammaticalization
2.1 'Ordinary' contact-induced grammaticalization
2.2 Replica grammaticalization
2.3 Contact as catalyst and principles of grammaticalization
3. Data for this study
4. Already as marker of perfective aspect
4.1 Already in Singapore Colloquial English (SCE)
4.2 Already in bilingual development
5. Give-passives and replica grammaticalization
5.1 Give-passives in Malay contact varieties
5.2 The give-passive in Singapore Colloquial English
5.3 Ontogenetic grammaticalization of 'give' in bilingual children
5.4 Dative constructions with bei2 'give'
6. Conclusions
Notes
References
Tone inventories and tune-text alignments
1. Introduction
2. A unified Autosegmental-Metrical account
3. The phonetic grounding of segmental rhythms
4. Tone in an Autosegmental-Metrical account
5. The morphosyntactic functions of tone
6. Tone function versus tone density in defining "tone language"
7. Prominence-marking mechanisms
8. The phonetic grounding of stress
9. Cross-linguistic differences in tonal association and prominence marking
10. Summary
Notes
References
Subsystem interface and tone typology in Papiamentu
1. Typology as interface
2. Segments and tone
2.1 Papiamentu and tone typology
2.2 Morae and segments
3. Suprasegmental features and tone
3.1 Tone and stress
3.2 Tone and phrases: Intonation, downstepping/downdrift, and boundary tones
4. Conclusions
Notes
References
A twice-mixed creole?
1. Introduction
2. Sociohistorical background of Saramaccan
3. The "split" lexicon of Saramaccan
3.1 Introduction and terminological preliminaries
3.2 On the origins of the split
3.3 An underlying three-way tonal distinction
3.4 The restricted nature of attested tonal patterns
4. Saramaccan in typological, genealogical, and areal context
4.1 Lexical strata
4.2 Tonal phenomena in other Atlantic creoles
5. Towards an explanation for the development of the split lexicon
5.1 Rejected scenarios
5.2 Mixed languages
6. The split lexicon in Saramaccan as language mixture
6.1 A basic scenario
6.2 Open issues
6.3 Two other phonological clues
7. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

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