Roots of Creole Structures

Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates

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Susanne Maria Michaelis | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Justus-Liebig University, Giessen

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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.

[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp.

Publishing status: Available

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

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. vii–viii

List of standard abbreviations | p. ix

Preface | pp. xi–xvii

1. The problem of multiple substrates: The case of Jamaican Creole

Silvia Kouwenberg | pp. 1–27

2. The superstrate is not always the lexifier: Lingua Franca in the Barbary Coast 1530-1830

Rachel Selbach | pp. 29–58

3. In praise of the cafeteria principle: Language mixing in Hawai'i Creole

Jeff Siegel | pp. 59–82

4. Tense marking and inflectional morphology in Indo-Portuguese creoles

Ana R. Luís | pp. 83–121

5. Vowel epenthesis and creole syllable structure

Christian Uffmann | pp. 123–152

6. The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan: Implications for sociohistory

Norval Smith | pp. 153–168

7. Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri: Problems of language contact

Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig and Fabiola Henri | pp. 169–196

8. On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creole's lexicon

Claire Lefebvre | pp. 197–223

9. Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from?

Susanne Maria Michaelis | pp. 225–251

10. A first step towards the analysis of tone in Santomense

Philippe Maurer | pp. 253–261

11. Balanta, Guiné-Bissau Creole Portuguese and Portuguese: A comparison of the noun phrase

Incanha Intumbo | pp. 263–278

12. Zamboangueño Chavacano and the potentive mode

Carl Rubino | pp. 279–299

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 | pp. 301–331

14. The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole: Morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic processes

Paula Prescod | pp. 333–355

15. A la recherche du "superstrat": What North American French can and cannot tell us about the input to creolization

Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh | pp. 357–383

Personal name index | pp. 385–389

Language index | pp. 391–403

Places and Peoples index | pp. 405–407

Subject index | pp. 411–425

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