Gradual Creolization

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Studies celebrating Jacques Arends

Rachel Selbach Hugo C. Cardoso Margot van den Berg(Editor)

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Gradual Creolization
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Picture of Jacques Arends
Table of contents
Maps
One more cup of coffee
1. Introduction
1.1 This volume
2. Contents
3. Dialogues and points of view
4. Theory and the gradual approach: Concluding remarks
References
Jacques Arends' model of gradual creolization*
1. Introduction
2. Context
2.1 The debate prior to Jacques Arends' work
3. Jacques Arends' contribution
3.1 A model of gradual creolization
3.2 Research methodology
3.3 Theoretical implications
References
Linguistic analysis
Productive bimorphemic structuresand the concept of gradual creolization*
1. Bimorphemic interrogatives
2. Other bimorphemic structures
3. The concept of gradual creolization
4. Summary and conclusions
References
Gradual vs. abrupt creolization and recent changes in Daman Creole Portuguese*
1. Introduction
2. Gradualist vs. abrupt creolization and Emergent Grammar
3. Data Collection and results
3.1 Coordinative s? nãw
3.2 Locative d?
4. Concluding remarks
References
Appendix
Gradual restructuring in Ecuadorian Quechua*
1. Introduction
2. The position of Ecuadorian Quechua in the Quechua language family
3. The genesis of Ecuadorian Quechua
3.1 The spread of Quechua to Ecuador
3.2 Creolization or radical koineization?
4. The sources
4.1 Anonymous manuscript of Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz
4.2 Luis Francisco Romero
4.3 Nieto Polo
4.4 Velasco
4.5 Cordero
4.6 Juan León Mera
5. Conclusion
References
List of abbreviations in glosses
A note on the process of lexical diffusion in the development of creoles
1. Introduction
2. Availability of the double-object construction
3. The range of double-object verbs in Haitian and West African source languages
3. Lexical diffusion
4. The gradual creolisation issue
References
Change in the possessive system of French Caribbean Creole Languages*
1. Towards a definition of the creole languages
2. The example of the possessive
3. Conclusion
References
The origin and development of possibility in the creoles of Suriname*
1. Introduction
2. Possibility in the modern creoles of Suriname
2.1 Dynamic possibility in the creoles of Suriname
2.2 Root possibility in the creoles of Suriname
2.3 Deontic possibility in the creoles of Suriname
2.4 Epistemic possibility in the creoles of Suriname
2.5 Summary of the findings
3. The uses of the modals of possibility in the early documents
3.1 Possibility in the early Sranan Tongo texts
3.2 Possibility in the early Saamaka documents
3.3 Summary
4. Dutch influence on possibility in Sranan
5. Sa in the early texts
6. Dutch influence on sa in Sranan
7. Gbe Inflence on possibility in the Maroon Creoles
7.1 Gbe influence on sa
7.2 Gbe influence on other aspects of possibility.
8. Conclusion
References
The Saramaccan lexicon
1. Preamble
2. Introduction
3. Method
4. The Portuguese and English corpora
5. The etymological sources of the verbs
6. The least frequent Portuguese verbs
7. The most frequent verbs.
8. Doublets
9. The origin of the Portuguese elements
10. Conclusions
References
Development of a creole lexicon*
1. Introduction
2. Bantu lexical influence on Suriname creoles
3. Kwa lexical influence on Ndyuka
3.1 Gbe
3.2 Akan
4. Lexical influence on Ndyuka from other African languages
4.1 Gur
4.2 Delto-Benuic
4.3 Upper Guinea
5. Conclusion
References
Gradualism in the transfer of tone spread rules in Saramaccan
1. Introduction
2. Saramaccan high tone spread rules
2.1 Default leftward high tone spread rules
2.2 Rightward high tone spread on non-universal quantifiers
3. Serial verb constructions in Saramaccan and its primary substrate language Fongbe
3.1 Rightward H spread in serial verb constructions in Saramaccan
3.2 Rightward high tone spread in serial verb constructions in Fongbe
4. Quantifiers in Saramaccan and Kikongo
4.1 Non-universal quantifiers in Saramaccan
4.2 Non-universal quantifers in serial verb constructions in Saramaccan
4.2.1 Non-universal quantifiers and SVCs with determiners of nationality
4.3 Non-universal quantifiers in Kikongo
4.4 Universal quantifiers in serial verb constructions in Saramaccan
4.5 Universal quantifiers in Kikongo
5. Transfer of serial verb constructions and quantifiers
5.1 Default head-leftward H spread rule
5.2 Rightward H spread on serial verb constructions
5.3 Blocking of rightward H spread rules on SVCs by quantifiers
6. Conclusion
References
In search of a submerged phonology
1. Introduction
2. CDP and modern Khoekhoe Afrikaans
3. Baron van Reede's complaint: "Haer uijtspraek valt swaer"
4. De Flacourt's data (1658)
4.1 Two introductory remarks
4.2 A first set of data
4.3 Further sets of data
4.4 An addendum from Nienaber (1963)
5. What can be found in the usual pidgin data?
6. A paragogic schwa?
7. Continuity and a comparison with Khoekhoe Afrikaans
8. Concluding remarks
References
A Literature
B Sources
Sociohistorical reconstruction
Bilingualism and creolization in Solomon Islands*
1. Introduction
2. The nature and extent of multilingualism in Solomon Islands and Honiara
3. Creolization as social change
4. Analysis
5. Conclusion
References
Lingua Franca in West Africa?
1. Introduction
2. Portuguese dominance in West Africa, 1470-1600
3. The nature of Afro-Portuguese contact on the Gold Coast
4. Early restructured Portuguese in West Africa
5. Evidence from early travel accounts: the Lingua Franca connection?
6. Creolized LF/Pidgin Portuguese in Mulatto communities?
7. The use of restructured Portuguese after the period of Portuguese dominance
8. Gradual structural elaboration in trade Pidgins?
9. Conclusion
References
The formation of the Portuguese-based Creoles
1. Introduction
2. Upper Guinea Creoles
2.1 Cape Verde
2.2 Guinea-Bissau
3. Gulf of Guinea Creoles
3.1 São Tomé
3.2 Príncipe
3.3 Annobon
3.4 Angolar
4. Asian Creoles
4.1 India
4.2 Sri Lanka
4.3 Malacca
4.4 Java
4.5 Macao
5. Conclusions
References
Appendix
Texts and Descriptions (pre-1900)
References for Appendix
English-speaking in early Surinam?*
1. Introduction
1.1 Gradual and abrupt creolization
1.2 Demographic and (other) sociohistorical data
1.3 Linguistic evidence and sociohistorical evidence
1.4 Creole, creolization - what do we mean by these terms?
1.5 Creolization as imperfect L2-learning?
1.6 Linguistic motivations
2. English as a slave language in Surinam
3. Why this model doesn't work
3.1 Dju-Tongo
3.2 Saramaccan - what does demography tell us?
4. The Very Rapid Creolization Hypothesis
4.1 The Restricted Motivation Hypothesis
4.2 I-creole and E-creole
4.3 Idiolect levelling
5. Conclusion
References
The demographic context of creolization in early English Jamaica, 1655-1700
1. Introduction
2. Early English Jamaica
2.1 Background
2.2 Population size and development
2.3 The nature of Jamaica's society during the first two decades
3. The provenance of slaves in early English Jamaica
3.1 The trans-Atlantic slave trade
3.2 The intra-Caribbean transshipment trade
3.3 Intra-Caribbean migration as a source of slaves
3.4 Plunder as a source of slaves
3.5 Constructing the big picture, 1655-1675
3.6 Constructing the big picture, 1676-1700
4. Discussion
4.1 The context of creolization
4.2 Against gradualism
5. Conclusion
References
The Founder Principle and Anguilla's Homestead Society*
1. Introduction
2. The Founder Principle
2.1 Diachronic Distribution and Prestige
2.2 Social Ecologies and the Interaction Factor
3. A Diversity of Founders
3.1 Europeans in the Seventeenth Century
3.2 Africans in the Seventeenth Century
4. Sociohistorical Extrapolation
References
Demographic factors in the formation of French Guianese Creole
1. Introduction
2. Early social history of French Guiana
3. Early censuses in French Guiana
4. Life on a sugar plantation
5. The children of French Guiana
6. African languages and the slave population
7. Conclusion
References
Index
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