Development and Structures of Creole Languages
Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton
Published on 15. March 1991
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-1-55619-162-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work. While the papers make independent thematic contributions, they also discuss, augment, present alternatives to, or are inspired in some way by Bickerton's seminal ideas or penetrating analyses. The book is organized into 5 sections, each a reflection of a major research period in Bickerton's career: Section 1: Identifying Creoles; Section 2: Language Variation; Section 3: Creole Processes; Section 4: Creole Syntax and Semantics; Section 5: Serial Verbs.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-162-6 (9781556191626)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Contents; 3. Introduction: Innovation and Excellence within a Scholary Tradition (by Byrne, Francis); 4. 1. Identifying Creoles; 5. St Helena English (by Hancock, Ian F.); 6. American Indian English: A Phylogenetic Dilemma (by Bartelt, H. Guillermo); 7. 2. Language Variation; 8. Style, Status, Change: Three Sociolinguistic Axioms (by Preston, Dennis R.); 9. Using the Future o Explain the Past (by Sankoff, Gillian); 10. Decreolization or Dialect Contact in Haiti? (by Valdman, Albert); 11. 3. Creole Processes; 12. From Botany to Creolistics: The Contribution of the Lexicon on the Flora to the Debate on Indian Ocean creole Genesis (by Chaudenson, Robert); 13. Ndjuka Organisation of Experience: African or Universal? (by Huttar, George L.); 14. A Reexamination of Bickerton's Phylogenesis Hypothesis (by Black, Mary C.); 15. 4. Creole Syntax and Semantics; 16. Pidgins, Creoles, Typology, and Markedness (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 17. The Binding Theory and Creolization: Evidence from 18th Century Negerhollands Reflexives (by Muysken, Pieter); 18. On the Copula in Mauritian Creole, Past and Present (by Baker, Philip); 19. 5. Serial Verbs; 20. Serialization in Creole Oral Discourse (by Escure, Genevieve); 21. The Definition of Serial Verbs (by Seuren, Pieter A.M.); 22. Approaches to 'Missing" Internal (and External) Arguments in Serial Structure: Some Presumed Difficulties (by Byrne, Francis)