Roots of Creole Structures
Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates
Published on 29. October 2008
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Hardback
425 pages
978-90-272-5255-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language structure including phonology, morphology, and syntax, providing a wealth of structural and sociohistorical data that any comprehensive theory of contact languages will have to account for. Each of the papers provides a thorough description of a structural phenomenon against the background of the sociohistorical contact situation. The languages covered in the book are: Guine-Bissau Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawai'i Creole, Indo-Portuguese creoles, Jamaican Creole, Lingua Franca, North American French, Mauritian Creole, Santomense, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sranan, Surinamese Maroon creoles, Vincentian Creole, and Zamboangueno Chavacano.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
940 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5255-5 (9789027252555)
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Roots of Creole Structures
Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates
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Content
1. List of contributors; 2. List of standard abbreviations; 3. Preface; 4. 1. The problem of multiple substrates: The case of Jamaican Creole (by Kouwenberg, Silvia); 5. 2. The superstrate is not always the lexifier: Lingua Franca in the Barbary Coast 1530-1830 (by Selbach, Rachel); 6. 3. In praise of the cafeteria principle: Language mixing in Hawai'i Creole (by Siegel, Jeff); 7. 4. Tense marking and inflectional morphology in Indo-Portuguese creoles (by Luis, Ana R.); 8. 5. Vowel epenthesis and creole syllable structure (by Uffmann, Christian); 9. 6. The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan: Implications for sociohistory (by Smith, Norval); 10. 7. Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri: Problems of language contact (by Kriegel, Sibylle); 11. 8. On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creole's lexicon (by Lefebvre, Claire); 12. 9. Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from? (by Michaelis, Susanne Maria); 13. 10. A first step towards the analysis of tone in Santomense (by Maurer, Philippe); 14. 11. Balanta, Guine-Bissau Creole Portuguese and Portuguese: A comparison of the noun phrase (by Intumbo, Incanha); 15. 12. Zamboangueno Chavacano and the potentive mode (by Rubino, Carl); 16. 13. Between contact and internal development: Towards a multi-layered explanation for the development of the TMA system in the creoles of Suriname (by Migge, Bettina); 17. 14. The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole: Morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic processes (by Prescod, Paula); 18. 15. A la recherche du "superstrat": What North American French can and cannot tell us about the input to creolization (by Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid); 19. Personal name index; 20. Language index; 21. Places and Peoples index; 22. Subject index