nam a22 c 4500 cll.53/392015270 nljbp 250625034533.0 cr ||||||||||| 170731s2017 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2017028602 9789027265449 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PE3102.N42 417 23 CFF bicssc LAN009010 bisacsh 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 Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017 ©2017 1 online resource (vii, 369 pp. ) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Creole Language Library 0920-9026 53 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Introduction / Philipp Angermeyer, Cecelia Cutler and Zvjezdana Vrzić -- Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar / Enoch O. Aboh -- The African diaspora in Latin America / Gregory R. Guy -- The sociohistorical matrix of creolization and the role children played in this process / Silvia Kouwenberg -- Creole as necessity? Creole as choice? / Ana Deumert -- Bahamian Creole English / Chanti Seymour -- Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora / Walt Wolfram and Caroline Myrick -- Historical separations / Renee Blake -- Some observations on the sources of AAVE structure / Donald Winford -- Unity in diversity / Kofi Yakpo -- Krio as the Western Maroon Creole language of Jamaica, and the /na/ isogloss / Norval Smith -- Number marking in Jamaican Patwa / Peter L. Patrick -- Variationist creolistics, with a phonological focus / John R. Rickford -- Pidginization versus second language acquisition / Rajend Mesthrie -- Crosslinguistic effects in adjectivization strategies in Suriname, Ghana and Togo / Margot van den Berg, Evershed Kwasi Amuzu, Komlan Essizewa, Elvis Yevudey and Kamaïloudini Tagba 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 language contact situations. John Victor Singler’s body of work, a model of what such a research paradigm should look like, strikes a careful balance between sociohistorical and linguistic analysis. The case studies in this volume present investigations into the sociohistorical matrix of language contact and critical insights into the sociolinguistic consequences of language contact within Africa and the African Diaspora. Additionally, they contribute to ongoing debates about pidgin/creole genesis and language contact by examining and comparing analyses and linguistic outcomes of particular sociohistorical and cultural contexts, and considering less-studied factors such as speaker agency and identity in the emergence, nativization, and stabilization of contact varieties. Provided by publisher. Contact Linguistics Creole studies Historical linguistics Sociolinguistics and Dialectology Cutler, Cecelia editor Vrzić, Zvjezdana editor Angermeyer, Philipp editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017 9789027252777 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.53 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027265449