Gradual Creolization
Studies celebrating Jacques Arends
Published on 8. April 2009
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Hardback
392 pages
978-90-272-5256-2 (ISBN)
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Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a state-of-the art assessment of the theory of gradual creolization. Authors scrutinize the roles of nativization, demography, initial settlement, language composition, koineization, adstrate presence, bilingualism, as well as a variety of structural features in pidgins, creoles and other contact languages world-wide. From Pacific to Atlantic, French-, English-, Dutch-, Portuguese- and other-lexified restructured varieties are covered. Syntactic, lexical, phonological, historical and socio-cultural studies are grouped into Part 1, Linguistic analysis, and Part 2, Social reconstruction. This volume provides the multi-faceted groundwork and expert discussion that will help formulate further a model of gradual creolization, as called for by the work of the late Jacques Arends.
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Language
English
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
865 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5256-2 (9789027252562)
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Studies celebrating Jacques Arends
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Content
1. Maps; 2. Introductory words; 3. One more cup of coffee: On Gradual Creolization (by Berg, Margot van den); 4. Jacques Arends' model of gradual creolization (by Cardoso, Hugo C.); 5. Part 1. Linguistic analysis; 6. Productive bimorphemic structures and the concept of gradual creolization (by Baker, Philip); 7. Gradual vs. abrupt creolization and recent changes in Daman Creole Portuguese (by Clements, J. Clancy); 8. Gradual restructuring in Ecuadorian Quechua (by Muysken, Pieter); 9. A note on the process of lexical diffusion in the development of creoles: The case of double-object verbs (by Lefebvre, Claire); 10. Change in the possessive system of French Caribbean Creole languages (by Hazael-Massieux, Marie-Christine); 11. The origin and development of possibility in the creoles of Suriname (by Migge, Bettina); 12. The Saramaccan lexicon: Verbs (by Bakker, Peter); 13. Development of a creole lexicon (by Huttar, George L.); 14. Gradualism in the transfer of tone spread rules in Saramaccan (by Kramer, Marvin); 15. In search of a submerged phonology: The case of early Cape Dutch Pidgin (by Besten, Hans den); 16. Part 2. Sociohistorical reconstruction; 17. Bilingualism and creolization in Solomon Islands (by Jourdan, Christine); 18. Lingua Franca in West Africa? An evaluation of the sociohistorical and metalinguistic evidence (by Huber, Magnus); 19. The formation of the Portuguese-based Creoles: Gradual or abrupt? (by Ladhams, John); 20. English-speaking in early Surinam? (by Smith, Norval); 21. The demographic context of creolization in early English Jamaica, 1655-1700 (by Kouwenberg, Silvia); 22. The founder principle and Anguilla's homestead society (by Walicek, Don E.); 23. Demographic factors in the formation of French Guianese Creole (by Jennings, William); 24. Index