The Early Stages of Creolization
Published on 1. January 1996
Book
Hardback
297 pages
978-1-55619-167-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together a number of studies on the early stages of creolization which are entirely based on historical data. The recent (re)discovery of early documents written in creole languages such as Negerhollands, Bajan, and Sranan, allows for a detailed and empirically founded reconstruction of creolization as an historical-linguistic process. In addition, demographic and socio-historical evidence on some of the relevant former colonies, such as Surinam, Haiti, and Martinique, sheds new light on some crucial sociolinguistic aspects of creolization, such as the rate of nativization of the creole-speaking population. Both types of evidence relate to essential questions in the theory of creolization, such as: Is creolization a matter of first or second language acquisition? What are the respective roles of substrate, superstrate, and universal grammar in creole genesis? And, what, if any, are the differences between creole development and normal language change?
The subjects discussed in this volume include: a comparative study of the historical development of seven pidgins and creoles (Baker); reflexives in 18th-century Negerhollands (Van der Voort & Muysken); the emergence of taki as a complementizer in Sranan (Plag); the historical development of relativization in Sranan (Bruyn); the cultural and demographic background of creolization in Haiti and Martinique (Singler); the creole nature of early Bajan (Field); a linguistic analysis of the so-called 'slave letters' in Negerhollands (Stein); and demographic factors in the formation of Sranan (Arends).
The subjects discussed in this volume include: a comparative study of the historical development of seven pidgins and creoles (Baker); reflexives in 18th-century Negerhollands (Van der Voort & Muysken); the emergence of taki as a complementizer in Sranan (Plag); the historical development of relativization in Sranan (Bruyn); the cultural and demographic background of creolization in Haiti and Martinique (Singler); the creole nature of early Bajan (Field); a linguistic analysis of the so-called 'slave letters' in Negerhollands (Stein); and demographic factors in the formation of Sranan (Arends).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-167-1 (9781556191671)
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Content
1. Acknowlegments; 2. Introdution (by Arends, Jacques); 3. Some Development Interferences from the Historical Studies of Pidgins and Creoles (by Baker, Philip); 4. Eighteenth-Century Negerhollands reflexives Revisited (by Voort, Hein van der); 5. Early Creole Writing and its Effects on the Discovery of Creole Language Structure: The Case of Eighteenth-Century Negerhollands (by Stein, Peter); 6. The Negerhollands Word sender in Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts (by Hinskens, Frans L.); 7. Early Bajan: Creole or Non-creole? (by Fields, Linda); 8. The Emergence of taki as a Complementizer in Sranan: On Substrate Influence, Universals, and Gradual Creolization (by Plag, Ingo); 9. Relative Clauses in Early Sranan (by Bruyn, Adrienne); 10. The Demographics of Creole Genesis in the Caribbean: A Comparison of Martinique and Haiti (by Singler, John Victor); 11. Demographic Factors in the Formation of Sranan (by Arends, Jacques)