Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology

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Claire Lefebvre | University of Quebec at Montreal

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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 example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a “definable typological class” (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class.

[Typological Studies in Language, 95] 2011. ix, 626 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.95

Table of Contents

Preface | p. ix

Introduction

The problem of the typological classification of creoles

Claire Lefebvre | pp. 3–33

Creoles spoken in Africa and in the Caribbean

Èdó influence on Santome: Evidence from verb serialisation

Tjerk Hagemeijer and Ota Ogie | pp. 37–60

A Wolof trace in the verbal system of the Portuguese Creole of Santiago Island (Cape Verde)

Jürgen Lang | pp. 61–80

Substrate influences in Kriyol: Guinea-Bissau and Casamance Portuguese-related Creole

Alain Kihm | pp. 81–103

One substrate, two creoles: The development of segmental inventories in St. Lucian and Haitian

Anne-Marie Brousseau | pp. 105–125

Substrate features in the properties of verbs in three Atlantic creoles: Haitian Creole, Saramaccan and Papiamentu

Claire Lefebvre | pp. 127–153

Assessing the nature and role of substrate influence in the formation and development of the creoles of Suriname

Bettina Migge | pp. 155–179

African substratal influence on the counterfactual in Belizean Creole

Geneviève Escure | pp. 181–200

Substrate features in Nicaraguan, Providence and San Andrés Creole Englishes: A comparison with Twi

Angela Bartens | pp. 201–224

Palenque(ro): The search for its African substrate

Armin Schwegler | pp. 225–249

Creoles spoken in Asia

Convergence-to-substratum and the passives in Singapore English

Zhiming Bao | pp. 253–270

Tone in Singlish: Substrate features from Sinitic and Malay

Lisa Lim | pp. 271–287

The Cantonese substrate in China Coast Pidgin

Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Geoff P. Smith | pp. 289–301

Substrate influences in Mindanao Chabacano

Anthony P. Grant | pp. 303–324

Negation in Ternate Chabacano

Eeva Sippola | pp. 325–336

Aspect and directionality in Kupang Malay serial verb constructions: Calquing on the grammars of substrate languages

June Jacob and Charles E. Grimes | pp. 337–366

Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates

Umberto Ansaldo | pp. 367–382

Dravidian features in the Sri Lankan Malay verb

Peter Slomanson | pp. 383–409

Creoles spoken in the Pacific

Papuan Malay of New Guinea: Melanesian influence on verb and clause structure

Mark Donohue | pp. 413–435

The influence of Arandic languages on Central Australian Aboriginal English

Harold Koch | pp. 437–460

Roper River Aboriginal language features in Australian Kriol: Considering semantic categories

Jennifer Munro | pp. 461–487

Substrate influences on New South Wales Pidgin: The origin of -im and -fela

Harold Koch | pp. 489–512

Limits of the substrate: Substrate grammatical influence in Solomon Islands Pijin

Angela Terrill | pp. 513–529

Substrate reinforcement and the retention of Pan-Pacific Pidgin features in modern contact varieties

Jeff Siegel | pp. 531–556

The copula in Hawai‘i Creole English and substrate reinforcement

Sarah J. Roberts | pp. 557–573

“On traduit la langue en français”: Substrate influence in the TMA system of Tayo

Barbara Sandeman | pp. 575–595

Conclusion

Creoles and language typology

Bernard Comrie | pp. 599–611

Index of authors | pp. 613–618

Index of languages and language families | pp. 619–622

Index of subjects | pp. 623–626

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