Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
Editor
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 argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a wide range of contact languages, ranging from English- and French-based creoles through Portuguese creoles of Africa and Asia, Sango, Popular Brazilian Portuguese, West African Pidgin Englishes, and Hawaiian Creole English.
[Creole Language Library, 21] 2000. viii, 503 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. vii
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Verb Movement in four Creole Languages: A Comparative AnalysisMarlyse Baptista | p. 1
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Notes on Componential Diffusion in the Genesis of the Kabuverdianu ClusterAngela Bartens | p. 35
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“High” Kwéyòl: The Emergence of a Formal Creole Register in St LuciaPaul B. Garrett | p. 63
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From Latin to Early Romance: A Case of Partial Creolization?Stéphane Goyette | p. 103
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The Creole verb: A Comparative Study of Stativity and Time ReferenceJohn Holm | p. 133
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Are Creole Languages “Perfect” Languages?Alain Kihm | p. 163
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The Origin of the Syntax and Semantics of Property Items in the Surinamese Plantation CreoleBettina Migge | p. 201
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Variable Concord in Portuguese: The Situation in Brazil and PortugalAnthony J. Naro and Maria Marta Pereira Scherre | p. 235
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Nativization and the genesis of Hawaiian CreoleSarah J. Roberts | p. 257
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The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conceptionWilliam J. Samarin | p. 301
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Optimality Theory, the Minimal-Word Constraint, and the Historical Sequencing of Substrate Influence in Pidgin/Creole GenesisJohn Victor Singler | p. 335
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The Story of kom in Nigerian Pidgin EnglishSali A. Tagliamonte | p. 353
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Tense and Aspect in Sranan and the Creole PrototypeDonald Winford | p. 383
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Chaos and Creoles. Towards a New Paradigm?George Lang | p. 443
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Wh-words and Question Formation in Pidgin/Creole LanguagesJ. Clancy Clements and Ahmar Mahboob | p. 459
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Index | p. 499
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General