Structure and Variation in Language Contact
Editors
This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect – from various perspectives and using different types of data – on the interplay between structure and variation in contact languages, both synchronically and diachronically. The contributors consider a wide range of languages, including Surinamese creoles, Chinook Jargon, Yiddish, AAVE, Haitian Creole, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Portuguese varieties, Nigerian Pidgin, Sri Lankan Malay, Papiamentu, and Bahamian Creole English. A need to question and test existing claims regarding pidginization/creolization is evident in all contributions, and the authors provide analyses for a variety of grammatical structures: VO-ordering and affixation, agglutination, negation, TMAs, plural marking, the copula, and serial verb constructions. The volume provides ample evidence for the observation that pidgin/creole studies is today a mature subfield of linguistics which is making important contributions to general linguistic theory.
[Creole Language Library, 29] 2006. viii, 376 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionAna Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman-Tame | pp. 1–6
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Part I: Structure
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The phonetics of tone in SaramaccanJeff Good | pp. 9–28
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Tracing the origin of modality in the creoles of SurinameBettina Migge | pp. 29–59
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Modelling Creole Genesis: Headedness in morphologyTonjes Veenstra | pp. 61–83
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The restructuring of tense/aspect systems in creole formationDonald Winford | pp. 85–110
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Syntactic properties of negation in Chinook Jargon, with a comparison of two source languagesZvjezdana Vrzić | pp. 111–133
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Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax: Lankan or Malay?Peter Slomanson | pp. 135–158
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Sri Lanka Malay: Creole or convert?Ian Smith and Scott Paauw | pp. 159–181
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The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for proven or putative relexified languages: (Extrapolating from the Yiddish experience)Paul Wexler | pp. 183–199
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Part II: Variation
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A fresh look at habitual be in AAVEChris Collins | pp. 203–224
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Oral narrative and tense in urban Bahamian Creole EnglishStephanie Hackert | pp. 225–242
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Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structuresDagmar Deuber | pp. 243–261
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A linguistic time-capsule: Plural /s/ reduction in Afro-Portuguese and Afro-Hispanic historical textsFernanda L. Ferreira | pp. 263–289
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The progressive in the spoken Papiamentu of ArubaTara Sanchez | pp. 291–314
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Was Haitian ever more like French?Mikael Parkvall | pp. 315–335
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The late transfer of serial verb constructions as stylistic variants in Saramaccan creoleMarvin Kramer | pp. 337–372
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Index | pp. 373–376
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CF: Linguistics
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General