The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics
Editors
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 commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole terminology and contact language typology (Section One); a requestioning of process and evolution in pidginization, creolization, and other language contact phenomena (Section Two); a reinterpretation of the sources and genesis of grammatical aspects of Saramaccan and Atlantic creoles in general (Section Three); a reconsideration of the status of languages defying received definitions of pidgins and creoles (Section Four); and analyses of aspects of grammar that shed light on the issue of what a possible creole grammar is (Section Five).
[Creole Language Library, 19] 1997. viii, 461 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 October 2011
Published online on 28 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface and AcknowledgmentsArthur K. Spears | p. v
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Contents | p. vii
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Introduction: On the structure and status of pidgins and creolesDonald Winford | p. 1
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I. Terminology and Typology
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Jargons, pidgins, creoles, and koines: What are they?Salikoko S. Mufwene | p. 35
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A typology of contact languagesSarah G. Thomason | p. 71
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II. Process and evolution
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Directionality in pidginization and creolizationPhilip Baker | p. 91
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Mixing, leveling, and pidgin/creole developmentJeff Siegel | p. 111
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‘Matrix language recognition’ and ‘morphene sorting’ as possible structural strategies in pidgin/creole formationCarol Myers-Scotton | p. 151
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The creolization of pidgin morphophonologyWilliam J. Samarin | p. 175
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III. Sources and Genesis
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Saramaccan Creole origins: Portuguese-derived lexical correspondances and the relexification hypothesisMichael Aceto | p. 219
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Lost in transmission: A case for the independent emergence of the copula in Atlantic creolesJohn H. McWhorter | p. 241
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IV. Questions of Status
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Creole-like features in the verb system of an Afro-Brazilian variety of PortugueseAlan N. Baxter | p. 265
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The verb phrase in Afrikaans: Evidence of creolization?Christa de Kleine | p. 289
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Shaba Swahili: Partial creolization due to second language learning and substrate pressureVincent A. de Rooij | p. 309
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The status of Isicamtho, an Nguni-based urban variety of SowetoG. Tucker Childs | p. 341
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V. Aspects of Structure
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New light on Eskimo pidginsHein van der Voort | p. 373
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Reduplication in NdyukaMary L. Huttar and George L. Huttar | p. 395
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Tense-aspect-mood in PrincipensePhilippe Maurer | p. 415
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Author Index | p. 437
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Language Index | p. 443
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Subject Index | p. 451
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General