Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates

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Roots of Creole Structures

Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates

Edited by: Susanne Maria Michaelis

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2008

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Volume 33 | Creole Language Library

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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: Guiné-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 Zamboangueño Chavacano.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of standard abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. The problem of multiple substrates: The case of Jamaican Creole Silvia Kouwenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2. The superstrate is not always the lexifier: Lingua Franca in the Barbary Coast 1530-1830 Rachel Selbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
3. In praise of the cafeteria principle: Language mixing in Hawai'i Creole Jeff Siegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
4. Tense marking and inflectional morphology in Indo-Portuguese creoles Ana R. Luís Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
5. Vowel epenthesis and creole syllable structure Christian Uffmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
6. The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan: Implications for sociohistory Norval Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
7. Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri: Problems of language contact Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig and Fabiola Henri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
8. On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creole's lexicon Claire Lefebvre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
9. Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from? Susanne Maria Michaelis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225
10. A first step towards the analysis of tone in Santomense Philippe Maurer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
11. Balanta, Guiné-Bissau Creole Portuguese and Portuguese: A comparison of the noun phrase Incanha Intumbo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
12. Zamboangueño Chavacano and the potentive mode Carl Rubino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
13. Between contact and internal development: Towards a multi-layered explanation for the development of the TMA system in the creoles of Suriname Bettina Migge and Laurence Goury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
14. The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole: Morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic processes Paula Prescod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
15. A la recherche du "superstrat" : What North American French can and cannot tell us about the input to creolization Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
Personal name index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	385
Language index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
Places and Peoples index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	405
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411

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October 14, 2008

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9789027289964

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425

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.33

eBook ISBN: 9789027289964

Keywords for this book

Historical linguistics; Creole studies; Sociolinguistics and Dialectology; Contact Linguistics; Theoretical linguistics

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Professional and scholarly;

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