Roots of Creole Structures

Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates

Editor

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	vii–viii
List of standard abbreviations	ix
Preface	xi–xvii
1. The problem of multiple substrates: The case of Jamaican Creole Silvia Kouwenberg	1–27
2. The superstrate is not always the lexifier: Lingua Franca in the Barbary Coast 1530-1830 Rachel Selbach	29–58
3. In praise of the cafeteria principle: Language mixing in Hawai'i Creole Jeff Siegel	59–82
4. Tense marking and inflectional morphology in Indo-Portuguese creoles Ana R. Luís	83–121
5. Vowel epenthesis and creole syllable structure Christian Uffmann	123–152
6. The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan: Implications for sociohistory Norval Smith	153–168
7. Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri: Problems of language contact Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig and Fabiola Henri	169–196
8. On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creole's lexicon Claire Lefebvre	197–223
9. Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from? Susanne Maria Michaelis	225–251
10. A first step towards the analysis of tone in Santomense Philippe Maurer	253–261
11. Balanta, Guiné-Bissau Creole Portuguese and Portuguese: A comparison of the noun phrase Incanha Intumbo	263–278
12. Zamboangueño Chavacano and the potentive mode Carl Rubino	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	301–331
14. The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole: Morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic processes Paula Prescod	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	357–383
Personal name index	385–389
Language index	391–403
Places and Peoples index	405–407
Subject index	411–425

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Subjects & Metadata

Linguistics

Contact Linguistics

Creole studies

Historical linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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