Development and Structures of Creole Languages
Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 1991
X, 222 pages
978-90-272-7782-4 (ISBN)
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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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Content
- DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURES OF CREOLE LANGUAGES
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- PREFACE
- Table of contents
- INTRODUCTION: INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE WITHIN A SCHOLARLY TRADITION
- 1.0 Biography
- 2.0 Contents
- 3.0 A Bibliography of Bickertons Publications
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX: A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DEREK BICKERTONS PUBLICATIONS
- BOOKS, REPORTS, MANUSCRIPTS
- JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
- BOOK REVIEWS
- SECTION ONE: IDENTIFYING CREOLES
- ST. HELENA ENGLISH
- Linguistic Description
- Phonology
- Grammatical Notes
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Auxiliaries, the Copula
- Negation
- Questions
- Miscellaneous
- Notes on Specific Item
- Conclusions
- REFERENCES
- AMERICANINDIAN ENGLISH: A PHYLOGENETIC DILEMMA
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- SECTION TWO: LANGUAGE VARIATION
- STYLE, STATUS, CHANGE:THREE SOCIOLINGUISTIC AXIOMS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- USING THE FUTURE TO EXPLAIN THE PAST
- 1.0 Introduction
- 2.0 The Syntax of bai
- 2.1 Placement of bai with Respect to Subject NP
- 2.2 Placement of bai with Respect to the VP
- 2.3 Is bai Adverb or a Conjunction
- 3.0 Is future' the Central Meaning of bai?
- 4.0 Change in the Tok Pisin Tense-Aspect System
- 5.0 Apparent Time and Real Time
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- DECREOLIZATION OR DIALECT CONTACT IN HAITI?
- 1.0 Introduction
- 2.0 Dialect Variation in Haiti
- 3.0 Sociolectal Differentiation
- 3.1 Kreyòl swa
- 3.2 The Front Rounded Vowel Diaphonemes
- 3.3 Morphosyntactic and Lexical Features
- 4.0 Non-French Targeted Features of BHC
- 5.0 Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- SECTION THREE : CREOLIZATION PROCESSES
- FROM BOTANY TO CREOLISTICS:THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE LEXICON ON THE FLORATO THE DEBATE ON INDIAN OCEAN CREOLE GENESIS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- NDJUKA ORGANIZATION OF EXPERIENCE: AFRICAN OR UNIVERSAL?
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- A REEXAMINATION OF BICKERTON'S PHYLOGENESIS HYPOTHESIS
- REFERENCES
- SECTION FOUR: CREOLE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
- PIDGINS, CREOLES, TYPOLOGY, AND MARKEDNES
- 1.0 Introduction
- 2.0 Are Parametric Settings on a Par?
- 3.0 Conclusions
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- THE BINDING THEORY AND CREOLIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM 18TH CENTURY NEGERHOLLANDS REFLEXIVES
- 1.0 Introduction
- 2.0 18th Century Negerhollands Reflexives
- 3.0 Dutch Reflexives
- 4.0 Danish Reflexives
- 5.0 Discussion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX: OTHER EXAMPLES OF REFLEXIVES FOUND
- ON THE COPULA IN MAURITIAN CREOLE, PAST AND PRESENT
- 1.0 Introduction
- 2.0 Stress and Intonation in MC
- 3.0 The History of the Past Marker in MC
- 4.0 The Evolution of the Copula in MC
- 5.0 Conclusions
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- SECTION FIVE: SERIAL VERBS
- SERIALIZATION IN CREOLE ORAL DISCOURSE
- 1.0 Introduction: The Analysis of Acrolects in Language Continua
- 1.1 The Analysis of Creole Oral Discourse and the Paragraph Unit
- 2.0 Basilectal Verb Serialization
- 2.1 Syntactic Aspects
- 2.2 Semantic Aspects
- 3.0 Reflexes of Serialization in Acrolects
- 3.1 Information Sequentiality in the Paragraph and Serialization
- 4.0 Some Explanations
- 4.1 Acrolects and Acquisition Processes
- 4.2 'Universal' Pragmatic Principles
- 5.0 Conclusions
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX: Samples of Belizean Oral Discourse
- THE DEFINITION OF SERIAL VERBS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- APPROACHES TO "MISSING" INTERNAL (AND EXTERNAL) ARGUMENTS IN SERIAL STRUCTURE: SOME PRESUMED DIFFICULTIES
- 1.0 Introduction
- 2.0 Object Sharing
- 3.0 Full Array of Arguments
- 3.1 Adjunction or Subordination
- 3.2 Serial Arguments
- 4.0 Lexicalist Approach
- 4.1 Separate Lexical Items
- 4.2 Single Constituents
- 5.0 Conclusions
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
