SubjectsLinguistics / Contact Linguistics
Book series
ISSN 2542-7059
Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism
Edited by Christoph Gabriel, Kurt Braunmüller and Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber
ISSN 1571-4934
Multilingualism and Diversity Management
Edited by Anne-Claude Berthoud, François Grin and Georges Lüdi
ISSN 2210-7010
Journals
ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730
Names and Naming
Edited by Philipp Krämer, Eeva Sippola and Rachel Selbach
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1 (2026) v, 172 pp.
Pardon my French?: Dutch–French language contact in the Netherlands (1500–1900)
Gijsbert Rutten, Andreas Krogull, Brenda Assendelft and Jill Puttaert
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch–French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets,… read more
Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] 2025. viii, 325 pp.
Dialect on Air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Diana Wengler
Despite the increasing interest in diachronic linguistic studies, such research remains particularly scarce for creole varieties, largely due to the limited availability of historical data on non-standard languages. This book addresses this gap by introducing a soap opera from the early 1970s as a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G71] 2025. xvii, 198 pp.
Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries
Edited by Christopher Joby and Nicoline van der Sijs
Whilst the Dutch language cannot be considered a world language in the manner of English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French, the fact that speakers of Dutch have sailed to the four corners of the earth means that it cannot be overlooked in language-contact studies. This volume brings together scholars… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] 2025. vi, 584 pp.
New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use
Edited by Muhsina Alleesaib and Julie Lefort
In the South-West Indian Ocean, Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity, Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some… read more[Contact Language Library, 61] 2025. vi, 326 pp.
Our People’s Language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs. (Dân láng-e uè: Mga Manilá Lánnáng-e Lánnang-uè-e pagka-varỳ kâp pagka-pièn)
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
This book pioneers the study of Lánnang-uè, deeply embedded in Manila’s Lannang community’s culture. It approaches Lánnang-uè not just as a language but as a vibrant social practice, highlighting its variability and complex social meanings (e.g., identity-marking). Over six years and with more than… read more[Contact Language Library, 62] 2025. xiv, 461 pp.
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact
Edited by Farah Ali, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed
This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical, sociocultural, and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives, this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 44] 2025. vii, 222 pp.
Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel
Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam
This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world, including… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 10] 2025. vi, 275 pp.
Australian Contact Languages
Edited by Carmel O'Shannessy, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 (2024) vi, 311 pp.
Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings
Edited by Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kotze
Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings explores an innovative proposal: that linguistic similarities identified in different forms of contact-influenced varieties of language use (including translation, native and non-native varieties of… read more[Contact Language Library, 60] 2024. vi, 293 pp.
Intonation in Language Contact: The case of Spanish in Catalonia
Jonas Grünke
The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels, but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 286] 2024. ix, 427 pp.
Language Contact with Chinese
Edited by Zhiming Bao
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 (2023) vi, 206 pp.
Urban Panamanian English
Catherine Laliberté
Urban Panamanian English presents the first detailed account of the English used by the descendants of the Afro-Caribbean builders of the Panama Canal. It offers an up-to-date sociolinguistic account of the Panamanian West Indian community of Panama City and Colón, including empirical coverage of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G70] 2023. ix, 225 pp.
Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages: A socially-anchored approach
Lenore A. Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich
Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 52] 2022. xv, 354 pp.
Approaches to Variation in Creole Studies
Edited by Isabelle Léglise, Bettina Migge and Nicolas Quint
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 36:1 (2021) v, 219 pp.
Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] 2021. vii, 437 pp.
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] 2021. vi, 386 pp.
Pre-Historical Language Contact in Peruvian Amazonia: A dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan)
Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
South America was populated relatively recently, probably around 15,000 years ago. Yet, instead of finding a relatively small number of language families, we find some 118 genealogical units. So far, the historical processes that underlie the current picture are not yet fully understood. This book… read more[Contact Language Library, 58] 2021. xvii, 211 pp.
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of… read more[Contact Language Library, 59] 2021. xiv, 330 pp.
Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of… read more[Contact Language Library, 57] 2020. ix, 400 pp.
Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution
Edited by Stephen Fafulas
Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 23] 2020. viii, 303 pp.
Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives
Edited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera
This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia,… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 22] 2020. vii, 336 pp.
Intermediate Language Varieties: Koinai and regional standards in Europe
Edited by Massimo Cerruti and Stavroula Tsiplakou
The papers in this volume address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the ‘dialect-standard’ landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different languages (Norwegian, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek), on speech… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 24] 2020. vi, 258 pp.
Palenquero and Spanish in Contact: Exploring the interface
John M. Lipski
Bilingual speakers are normally aware of what language they are speaking or hearing; there is, however, no widely accepted consensus on the degree of lexical and morphosyntactic similarity that defines the psycholinguistic threshold of distinct languages. This book focuses on the Afro-Colombian… read more[Contact Language Library, 56] 2020. xvii, 318 pp.
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences their… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 28] 2020. x, 452 pp.
Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages
Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) v, 130 pp.
Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world
Edited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of how native and non-native varieties of Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 29] 2020. viii, 277 pp.
World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian diaspora in the USA
Mirka Honkanen
World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G63] 2020. vii, 338 pp.
Agreement in Language Contact: Gender development in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Florian Dolberg
Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English onwards. While either system is well described and understood, the change from one to the other is anything but: more than 120 years of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 208] 2019. xxi, 351 pp.
Documentary Linguistics: Working with Communities
Edited by Sumittra Suraratdecha and Toshihide Nakayama
Special issue of Language Ecology 3:2 (2019) v, 122 pp.
Heritage Languages: A language contact approach
Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken
Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 58] 2019. xix, 302 pp.
Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew
Edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube
The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 256] 2019. ix, 390 pp.
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English
Sofia Rüdiger
Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated, for example, by the notion of English Fever), research on the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G62] 2019. xvii, 228 pp.
Arabic in Contact
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. read more
Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 24] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across space and time
Edited by Jeremy King and Sandro Sessarego
This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus. It deals with both native and non-native varieties of the language,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 340] 2018. vi, 336 pp.
Language of Empire, Language of Power
Edited by Kees Versteegh
Special issue of Language Ecology 2:1/2 (2018) v, 146 pp.
Spanish in Colombia and New York City: Language contact meets dialectal convergence
Rafael Orozco
This volume fills a void in language variation and change research. It is the first to provide an empirical, comparative study of Spanish in Colombia and New York City. Remarkable similarities in the linguistic conditioning on language variation in both communities contrast with interesting… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 46] 2018. xv, 193 pp.
Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
Edited by Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva Sippola
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier… read more
The Dawn of Dutch: Language contact in the Western Low Countries before 1200
Michiel de Vaan
The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even… read more
Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond
Edited by Karen Dakin, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein
Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 185] 2017. xv, 433 pp.
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler
Edited by Cecelia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in… read more[Creole Language Library, 53] 2017. vii, 369 pp.
Language Variation on Jamaican Radio
Michael Westphal
This volume presents an in-depth analysis of language variation in Jamaican radio newscasts and talk shows. It explores the interaction of global and local varieties of English with regard to newscasters’ and talk show hosts’ language use and listeners’ attitudes. The book illustrates the benefits… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G60] 2017. xvi, 257 pp.
Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
Jacques Arends
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little… read more
Orality, Identity, and Resistance in Palenque (Colombia): An interdisciplinary approach
Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bryan Kirschen and Graciela Maglia
Located near Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Palenque is a former Afro-Hispanic maroon community that has recently attracted much national and international attention. The authors of this collection examine Palenque’s linguistic, geographic, and cultural origins from interdisciplinary and… read more[Contact Language Library, 54] 2017. xvii, 323 pp.
Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun
Edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Dagostino
This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] 2016. viii, 416 pp.
Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
Sandro Sessarego
The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to… read more
Early Germanic Languages in Contact
Edited by John Ole Askedal and Hans Frede Nielsen †
This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 27] 2015. x, 304 pp.
Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu
Claire Lefebvre
This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals. The first one is to evaluate the respective contribution of the source languages to the functional categories of these three creoles. The second is to evaluate… read more[Creole Language Library, 50] 2015. xvii, 386 pp.
Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Edited by Paula Prescod
This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.
Norn im keltischen Kontext
Christer Lindqvist
Auch die Britischen Inseln waren von der wikingerzeitlichen Expansion ab dem 8. Jh. betroffen. Nördlich und westlich des dänischen Danelag in England entstanden norwegische Siedlungen auf den Shetland- und Orkneyinseln, in Nordschottland, auf den Hebriden, an der schottischen und nordenglischen… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 26] 2015. xxii, 261 pp.
Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages: An Introduction
Viveka Velupillai
This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the… read more[Creole Language Library, 48] 2015. xxvii, 599 pp.
Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican
Andrea Hollington
Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The… read more[Culture and Language Use, 14] 2015. xxiv, 242 pp.
Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 (2014) v, 253 pp.
The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond
Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch
This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.
Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference: The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya lowlands
Danny Law
This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 328] 2014. xi, 206 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily
Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. The narrow focus on European lexifier and West African substrate languages has resulted in insufficient… read more[Creole Language Library, 47] 2014. v, 178 pp.
The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
Edited by Tor A. Åfarli and Brit Mæhlum
The aim of this book is to investigate and attain new insights on how and to what extent the wider sociolinguistic context of language use and contact impinges on formal grammatical structures. The papers contained in the book approach this important problem from various points of view by focusing… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 154] 2014. v, 260 pp.
Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl
Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses on the other logical possibilities of diachronic development, namely stability and divergence – two well-attested, but under-researched… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 16] 2014. vi, 298 pp.
Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 57] 2013. v, 279 pp.
The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings
Edited by Isabelle Léglise and Claudine Chamoreau
This volume is at the cross-roads between two research traditions dealing with language change: contact linguistics and language variation and change. It starts out from the notion that linguistic variation is still a little researched area in most contact-induced language change studies. Intending… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 12] 2013. vii, 264 pp.
Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches
Edited by Joana Duarte and Ingrid Gogolin
Rapidly increasing migration flows contribute to the development of multiple forms of social and cultural differentiation in urban areas – or to ‘super-diversity’. Language diversity is an important part of the resulting new social and cultural constellations. Although linguistic diversity is not a… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 2] 2013. xi, 304 pp.
Syntactic Variation and Verb Second: A German dialect in Northern Italy
Federica Cognola
This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery;… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 201] 2013. xii, 325 pp.
Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles
Edited by Nicholas Faraclas
This book is a ‘must read’ for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic accounts… read more[Creole Language Library, 45] 2012. xiii, 246 pp.
Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes
Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume, the first one dedicated… read more[Creole Language Library, 46] 2012. xi, 375 pp.
The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz
This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and… read more[Creole Language Library, 43] 2012. vii, 287 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles in Asia
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo
This book shifts the focus of Pidgin and Creole Studies from the better-known Atlantic/Caribbean contexts to the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and Mongolia. By looking at Asian contexts before and after Western colonial expansion, we offer readers insights into language contact in historical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 38] 2012. ix, 170 pp.
Case-Marking in Contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol
Felicity Meakins
Until recently, mixed languages were considered an oddity of contact linguistics, with debates about whether or not they actually existed stifling much descriptive work or discussion of their origins. These debates have shifted from questioning their existence to a focus on their formation, and… read more[Creole Language Library, 39] 2011. xxi, 311 pp.
Creoles and Typology
Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:1 (2011) v, 233 pp.
Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology
Edited by Claire Lefebvre
Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 95] 2011. ix, 626 pp.
Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their… read more[Not in series, 161] 2011. xviii, 421 pp.
Indentured Identities: Resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji
Farzana Gounder
The book explores the historical dimension of Indian indenture from within the lived experience of laborers, who emigrated to Fiji from colonial India a century ago. As these laborers are no longer alive, one could argue that the experience of indenture is no longer accessible, if there had not… read more[Studies in Narrative, 15] 2011. xvii, 345 pp.
Kwéyòl in Postcolonial Saint Lucia: Globalization, language planning, and national development
Aonghas St-Hilaire
Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era? In relation to the wider postcolonial world, especially the Caribbean, this book focuses on efforts to preserve and promote Lesser Antillean French Creole – Kwéyòl – as the national language of Saint Lucia… read more[Creole Language Library, 40] 2011. xv, 316 pp.
Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations
Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden
The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 36] 2011. v, 241 pp.
Languages in Contact: French, German and Romansh in twentieth-century Switzerland
Uriel Weinreich
The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich’s Columbia University doctoral… read more[Not in series, 166] 2011. xxxiv, 401 pp.
The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A case study of Mauritian creole
Diana Guillemin
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns,… read more[Creole Language Library, 38] 2011. xviii, 310 pp.
The Typology of Asian Englishes
Edited by Lisa Lim and Nikolas Gisborne
When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in – multilingual, mostly post-colonial – contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 33] 2011. vii, 120 pp.
Minority Languages and Group Identity: Cases and Categories
John Edwards
The central concern in this book is the relationship between language and group identity, a relationship that is thrown into greatest relief in ‘minority’ settings. Since much of the current interest in minority languages revolves around issues of identity politics, language rights and the plight… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 27] 2010. ix, 231 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25:1 (2010) v, 199 pp.
Complex Processes in New Languages
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith
In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating ‘complex’ structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction between supposedly more complex and less complex languages, how complexity relates to human knowledge of language, and the role of the… read more[Creole Language Library, 35] 2009. vii, 409 pp.
Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Juliane House
This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities.… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 8] 2009. viii, 241 pp.
Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends
Edited by Rachel Selbach, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg
Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a… read more[Creole Language Library, 34] 2009. x, 392 pp.
Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations
Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden
Special issue of Studies in Language 33:2 (2009) 250 pp.
Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond
Edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer
This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a great diversity of negation patterns, the following… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 87] 2009. vi, 368 pp.
From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics
Edited by Pieter Muysken
From linguistic areas to areal linguistics explores language description and typology in terms of areal background, presenting case studies in areal linguistics. Some concern well-established linguistic areas such as the Balkan, other regions such as East Nusantara (Indonesia) and the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 90] 2008. vii, 293 pp.
Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson
Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 – is the first collection of articles devoted to the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 94] 2008. xiv, 356 pp.
Language Contact and Contact Languages
Edited by Peter Siemund and Noemi Kintana
This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives – notably those of language typology,… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 7] 2008. x, 358 pp.
Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch
Edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli
This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] 2008. x, 364 pp.
Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates
Edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis
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… read more[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp.
Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations
Edited by Carolina Plaza-Pust and Esperanza Morales-López
This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 38] 2008. xvi, 389 pp.
St Helenian English: Origins, evolution and variation
Daniel Schreier
This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G37] 2008. xv, 312 pp.
Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective
Edited by Paolo Ramat and Elisa Roma
This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on ‘Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects’. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 88] 2007. xxvi, 364 pp.
Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives
Edited by Barbara Köpke, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer and Susan Dostert
This collection of articles provides theoretical foundations and perspectives for language attrition research. Its purpose is to enable investigations of L1 attrition to avail themselves more fully and more fundamentally of the theoretical frameworks that have been formulated with respect to SLA… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 33] 2007. vii, 258 pp.
Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley
Edited by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades
This volume in memory of Terry Crowley covers a wide range of languages: Australian, Oceanic, Pidgins and Creoles, and varieties of English. Part I, Linguistic Description and Typology, includes chapters on topics such as complex predicates and verb serialization, noun incorporation, possessive… read more[Creole Language Library, 30] 2007. xv, 514 pp.
Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach
Edited by Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron
This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser… read more[Creole Language Library, 31] 2007. x, 494 pp.
Play Frames and Social Identities: Contact encounters in a Greek primary school
Vally Lytra
This book is a sociolinguistic study of children’s talk and how they interact with one another and their teachers in multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic schools. It is based on tape recordings and ethnographic observations of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children at an… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 163] 2007. xii, 300 pp.
Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries
Edited by Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron
This volume, covering a range of topics such as Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, policy issues, pragmatics and language contact, sociolinguistic variation and contact, and Bozal (Creole) Spanish, will serve the interests of linguists, educators, and policy makers alike. It… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 22] 2007. xx, 397 pp.
Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages
Edited by Magnus Huber and Viveka Velupillai
This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory;… read more[Creole Language Library, 32] 2007. xii, 370 pp.
History, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman
Edited by J. Clancy Clements, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet
This volume presents a collection of new articles by sixteen specialists in the field of pidgin and creole studies, assembled in honor of the world-renowned creolist, Albert Valdman. The articles, written from a variety of theoretical perspectives, are organized thematically in three sections: on… read more[Creole Language Library, 28] 2006. vi, 304 pp.
Structure and Variation in Language Contact
Edited by Ana Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman
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… read more[Creole Language Library, 29] 2006. viii, 376 pp.
Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungary: Studies on Hungarian as a minority language
Edited by Anna Fenyvesi
In Communist times, it was impossible to do sociolinguistic work on Hungarian in contact with other languages. In the short period of time since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Hungarian sociolinguists have certainly done their very best to catch up. This volume brings together the fruits of their… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 20] 2005. xxii, 424 pp.
Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles
Edited by Susanne Mühleisen and Bettina Migge
Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G34] 2005. viii, 293 pp.
Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications
Edited by Geneviève Escure and Armin Schwegler
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… read more[Creole Language Library, 27] 2004. x, 355 pp.
Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Gisella Ferraresi
This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives. They… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 2] 2003. viii, 289 pp.
Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean
Edited by Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams
Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean is the first collection to focus, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. The following islands are included: The Virgin Islands (USA & British), Anguilla, Barbuda, Dominica, St.… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G30] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
Creole Formation as Language Contact: The case of the Suriname Creoles
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… read more[Creole Language Library, 25] 2003. xii, 151 pp.
Language Contacts in Prehistory: Studies in Stratigraphy. Papers from the Workshop on Linguistic Stratigraphy and Prehistory at the Fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 17 August 2001
Edited by Henning Andersen
Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy — the systematic study of such layers — may yield information about the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 239] 2003. viii, 292 pp.
The Making of a Mixed Language: The case of Ma’a/Mbugu
Maarten Mous
The Mbugu (or Ma'á) language (Tanzania) is one of the few genuine mixed languages, reputedly combining Bantu grammar with Cushitic vocabulary. In fact the people speak two languages: one mixed and one closely related to the Bantu language Pare. This book is the first comprehensive description of… read more[Creole Language Library, 26] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles
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… read more[Creole Language Library, 24] 2002. xiv, 331 pp.
Creolization and Contact
Edited by Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra
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… read more[Creole Language Library, 23] 2001. vi, 323 pp.
Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages
Edited by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider
Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different… read more[Creole Language Library, 22] 2000. iv, 492 pp.
Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact: A study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions
Rena Torres Cacoullos
This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 52] 2000. xvi, 252 pp.
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
Edited 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… read more[Creole Language Library, 21] 2000. vii, 503 pp.
Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato
Edited by John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine
This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come… read more[Creole Language Library, 20] 1999. viii, 418 pp.
Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect
Peter L. Patrick
A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G17] 1999. xx, 329 pp.
Contact Languages: A wider perspective
Edited by Sarah G. Thomason
This book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony against the still common view that all contact languages are pidgins… read more[Creole Language Library, 17] 1997. xiii, 506 pp.
Creole and Dialect Continua: Standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC)
Geneviève Escure
Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies,… read more[Creole Language Library, 18] 1997. x, 307 pp.
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics
Edited by Arthur K. Spears and Donald Winford
Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to… read more[Creole Language Library, 19] 1997. viii, 461 pp.
The Early Stages of Creolization
Edited by Jacques Arends
This volume brings together a number of studies on the early stages of creolization which are entirely based on historical data. The recent (re)discovery of early documents written in creole languages such as Negerhollands, Bajan, and Sranan, allows for a detailed and empirically founded… read more[Creole Language Library, 13] 1996. xvi, 297 pp.
The Genesis of a Language: The formation and development of Korlai Portuguese
J. Clancy Clements
Korlai Portuguese (KP), a Portuguese-based creole only recently discovered by linguists, originated around 1520 on the west coast of India. Initially isolated from its Hindu and Muslim neighbors by social and religious barriers, the small Korlai community lost virtually all Portuguese contact as… read more[Creole Language Library, 16] 1996. xviii, 281 pp.
The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages: Proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloqium, Odense University, November 1994
Edited by Hans Frede Nielsen † and Lene Schøsler
The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages is the proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium held at Odense University, November 1994 read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 17] 1996. xi, 318 pp.
Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language
Edited by Yaron Matras
A language of Indic origin heavily infuenced by European idioms for many centuries now, Romani provides an interesting experimental field for students of language contact, linguistic minorities, standardization, and typology. Approaching the language via its ever-surfacing character as a language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 126] 1995. xvii, 208 pp.
Kriyol Syntax: The Portuguese-based Creole language of Guinea-Bissau
Alain Kihm
This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole which is widely spoken as a first language in Guinea-Bissau. The study focuses on one variety, 'central Kriyol', and its main aim is to present a complete description of the grammar of the language. The theoretical framework for the syntactic analysis… read more[Creole Language Library, 14] 1994. xii, 310 pp.
Language Contact and Language Conflict
Edited by Martin Pütz
The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of… read more[Not in series, 71] 1994. xviii, 256 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction
Edited by Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion… read more[Creole Language Library, 15] 1994. xv, 409 pp.
Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization
Edited by Francis Byrne and John Holm †
Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics. read more[Creole Language Library, 11] 1993. ix, 465 pp.
Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Edited by Francis Byrne and Donald Winford
The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level… read more[Creole Language Library, 12] 1993. xvi, 329 pp.
Predication in Caribbean English Creoles
Donald Winford
This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC… read more[Creole Language Library, 10] 1993. viii, 419 pp.
Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Edited by Martin Pütz
For this volume, 30 well-known linguistics and researcher in related fields were invited to present an overview of their most important insights and theories as these have evolved over the past 30 years. Against the background of work done in other areas of study, the contributors reflect on the… read more[Not in series, 61] 1992. xl, 632 pp.
Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton
Edited by Francis Byrne and Thom Huebner
This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally… read more[Creole Language Library, 9] 1991. x, 222 pp.
The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary
Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila
Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of… read more[Creole Language Library, 8] 1991. x, 352 pp.
History from Below: The “Vocabulary of Elisabethville” by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay
Edited by Johannes Fabian
Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna). An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized,… read more[Creole Language Library, 7] 1990. vii, 236 pp.
Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems
Edited by John Victor Singler
More than any other area of the grammar, tense-mood-aspect (TMA) has provided evidence to fuel the ongoing debates about creole genesis and about the relevance of pidgin and creole phenomena to language theory more generally. This volume advances the debate in two ways. First, it makes available in… read more[Creole Language Library, 6] 1990. xvi, 240 pp.
Sing Without Shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse
Kenneth David Jackson
This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cultural traditions analyzes the oral traditions of Indo-Portugese creole verse, as a synthesis from European, African and Asian sources. This musical, dramatic and textual syncretism defines tradition within the group and maintains the… read more[Creole Language Library, 5] 1990. xxiv, 257 pp.
The Speech of the Negros Congos in Panama
John M. Lipski
The negros congos of Panama's Caribbean coast are a unique cultural manifestation of Afro-Hispanic contact. During Carnival season each year, this group reenacts dramatic events which affected black slaves in colonial Panama, performs dances and pantomimes, and enforces a set of ritual laws' and… read more[Creole Language Library, 4] 1989. vii, 159 pp.
Yugoslav General Linguistics
Edited by Milorad Radovanović
This volume is the first anthology of readings in Yugoslav general linguistics in English. It contains twenty contributions by outstanding Yugoslav scholars in such areas as comparative typology and contact linguistics, sociolinguistics (including such topics as bilingualism, multilingualism,… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 26] 1989. viii, 381 pp.
Det Gamle Shetlandske Sprog: George Low's ordliste fra 1774
Laurits Rendboe
Da den unge skotske teolog George Low blev sendt til Shetland i 1774 for at indsamle stof til en beskrivelse af disse øer, lykkedes det ham bl.a. at optegne en lille liste med hverdagsudtryk fra den gamle nordiske dialekt, der nedstammede direkte fra de oprindelige beboeres norrøne sprog, der var… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 3] 1987. xiv, 129 pp.
Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole: Verb Complementation in Saramaccan
Francis Byrne
With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study.… read more[Creole Language Library, 3] 1987. xiv, 293 pp.
The Syntax of Serial Verbs: An investigation into serialisation in Sranan and other languages
Mark Sebba
This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the literature. As a case study, the serial constructions of… read more[Creole Language Library, 2] 1987. xv, 226 pp.
Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985
Edited by Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly… read more[Creole Language Library, 1] 1986. vii, 311 pp.
Readings in Creole Studies
Edited by Ian F. Hancock
Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 2] 1979. xiv, 352 pp.