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Belizean Creole. Gender, creole, and the role of women in language change

  • Geneviève Escure
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Gender Across Languages
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Abstract

1.Problems of definition 1.1 Gender and sex in society 1.2 Pidgins and creoles 2. Focus on Belize 2.1 Sociolinguistic background 2.2 English influence on Belizean Creole 2.3 Previous studies of gender in Belize 2.4 Gender in nominal reference and proverbs 3. Gender in Belizean conversation 3.1 Absence of referential gender-marking (generic pronouns) 3.2 Comparative distribution of pronouns in Belizean and other Central American Creoles 4. Gender and linguistic change 4.1 Linguistic change: The copula 4.2 Linguistic change: Past tense 5. Explanations 6. Conclusion Notes References

Abstract

1.Problems of definition 1.1 Gender and sex in society 1.2 Pidgins and creoles 2. Focus on Belize 2.1 Sociolinguistic background 2.2 English influence on Belizean Creole 2.3 Previous studies of gender in Belize 2.4 Gender in nominal reference and proverbs 3. Gender in Belizean conversation 3.1 Absence of referential gender-marking (generic pronouns) 3.2 Comparative distribution of pronouns in Belizean and other Central American Creoles 4. Gender and linguistic change 4.1 Linguistic change: The copula 4.2 Linguistic change: Past tense 5. Explanations 6. Conclusion Notes References

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Languages of Volume II and III vii
  4. Preface ix
  5. Acknowledgments xi
  6. List of abbreviations xiii
  7. Gender across languages 1
  8. Arabic. Shifting sands 27
  9. Belizean Creole. Gender, creole, and the role of women in language change 53
  10. Eastern Maroon Creole. Communicating gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname 85
  11. English. Gender in a global language 105
  12. English. A corpus-based view of gender in New Zealand 115
  13. English. Spreading the feminist word 137
  14. English. A corpus-based view of gender in British and American English 153
  15. Hebrew. Gender switch in Modern Hebrew 177
  16. Indonesian. Gender in Javanese Indonesian 199
  17. Romanian. Deconstructing gender — The case of Romanian 229
  18. Russian. Doing gender in Russian 253
  19. Turkish. The communication of gender in Turkish 283
  20. Notes on contributors 311
  21. Name index 317
  22. Subject index 323
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.9.07esc

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Languages of Volume II and III vii
  4. Preface ix
  5. Acknowledgments xi
  6. List of abbreviations xiii
  7. Gender across languages 1
  8. Arabic. Shifting sands 27
  9. Belizean Creole. Gender, creole, and the role of women in language change 53
  10. Eastern Maroon Creole. Communicating gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname 85
  11. English. Gender in a global language 105
  12. English. A corpus-based view of gender in New Zealand 115
  13. English. Spreading the feminist word 137
  14. English. A corpus-based view of gender in British and American English 153
  15. Hebrew. Gender switch in Modern Hebrew 177
  16. Indonesian. Gender in Javanese Indonesian 199
  17. Romanian. Deconstructing gender — The case of Romanian 229
  18. Russian. Doing gender in Russian 253
  19. Turkish. The communication of gender in Turkish 283
  20. Notes on contributors 311
  21. Name index 317
  22. Subject index 323
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