Creole Formation As Language Contact
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Author |
: Bettina Migge |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 170 |
Release |
: 2003-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9027252475 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789027252470 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creole Formation as Language Contact by : Bettina Migge
The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the morphosyntactic system of the creoles of Suriname. The study draws on a rich corpus of a) natural conversational and elicited synchronic linguistic data from the Eastern Maroon Creole (EMC) and its main African substrate language, Gbe, b) published diachronic data from the EMC s sister-language Sranan Tongo, and c) information on the early history of Suriname coming from socio-historical investigations. It suggests that mechanisms of deliberate and contact-induced change also involved in borrowing and particularly shift situations led to the initial formation of the creoles of Suriname while language-internal change played a role in their subsequent development.
Author |
: Norval Smith |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2001-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027297716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027297711 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creolization and Contact by : Norval Smith
This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.” These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of second language learning for theories of pidgin/creole genesis; critically discuss the notions levelling (koine formation) and convergence; the relation between types of contact situations and processes of crosslinguistic influence; as well as the linguistic consequences of the social structure of the plantation system. In addition to discussing English-, French-, and Dutch-related creoles, the papers cover a wide range of contact languages spoken throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe. The breadth and coverage makes this an indispensable title for research in the field of contact linguistics.
Author |
: John McWhorter |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 514 |
Release |
: 2000-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027299482 |
ISBN-13 |
: 902729948X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles by : John McWhorter
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a wide range of contact languages, ranging from English- and French-based creoles through Portuguese creoles of Africa and Asia, Sango, Popular Brazilian Portuguese, West African Pidgin Englishes, and Hawaiian Creole English.
Author |
: Geneviève Escure |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2004-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027295088 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027295085 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creoles, Contact, and Language Change by : Geneviève Escure
This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists’ current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax. Some of the contributions make use of phonological analysis while others study language development from the point of view of acquisition. A few papers examine discourse strategies and style, or broader issues of social and ethnic identity. While this array of topics and perspectives is reflective of the diversity of the field, there is also much common ground in that all of the papers adduce solid data corpora to support their analyses. The range of languages analyzed spans the planet, as approximately twenty contact varieties are studied in this volume.
Author |
: Susanne Mühleisen |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2002-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027296337 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027296332 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creole Discourse by : Susanne Mühleisen
Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in many anglo-creolophone societies seems to suggest? This volume examines socio-historical and epistemological factors in the prestige formation of Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles and subjects their classification as a (socio)linguistic type to scrutiny and critical debate. In its analysis of rich empirical data this study also demonstrates that the uses, functions and negotiations of Creole within particular social and linguistic practices have shifted considerably. Rather than limiting its scope to one "national" speech community, the discussion focusses on changes of the social meaning of Creole in various discursive fields, such as inter generational changes of Creole use in the London Diaspora, diachronic changes of Creole representation in written texts, and diachronic changes of Creole representation in translation. The study employs a discourse analytical approach drawing on linguistic models as well as Foucauldian theory.
Author |
: John H. McWhorter |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 518 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9027252432 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789027252432 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles by : John H. McWhorter
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a wide range of contact languages, ranging from English- and French-based creoles through Portuguese creoles of Africa and Asia, Sango, Popular Brazilian Portuguese, West African Pidgin Englishes, and Hawaiian Creole English.
Author |
: Nicholas G. Faraclas |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 157 |
Release |
: 2021-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000386332 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000386333 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creoles, Revisited by : Nicholas G. Faraclas
This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages’ formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins and creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses—and scholars across many disciplines—will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.
Author |
: Glenn G. Gilbert |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015053772474 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in the Twenty-first Century by : Glenn G. Gilbert
Creolistics, an important branch of language contact theory and sociolinguistics, is one of the most socially engaged areas of language study today. Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century explores where the field is headed in the new century, in the judgment of eleven leading scholars. At the same time, the authors look backward toward the migrations starting five hundred years ago of Old World people to the Western Hemisphere and elsewhere, and the strange turns the European colonial languages underwent here. Their analyses underscore our belief that language change can only be understood in its social context, even though those changes often took place under horrifying conditions that were illegal even under the laws of the time.
Author |
: Mark Sebba |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 1997-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349255870 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349255874 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contact Languages by : Mark Sebba
Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles aims to introduce the reader to the exciting and important field of pidgin and creole studies. The book deals with the linguistic, historical and social aspects of the development of pidgin and creole languages. Detailed case studies of individual pidgins and creoles are based around texts drawn from a range of different types and contexts (mainly contemporary), with discussion and grammatical notes. Chapters are interspersed with exercises to consolidate and develop the reader's understanding.
Author |
: Philip Baker |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015047559581 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Contact to Creole and Beyond by : Philip Baker