Jeff Siegel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jeff Siegel plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0920-9034 | E-ISSN 1569-9870
Title
Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley
Edited by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades
[Creole Language Library, 30] 2007. xv, 514 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of Australasia and the Pacific
Articles
2021 Chapter 12. Identity, authenticity and dialect acquisition: The case of Australian English Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan, Ghimenton, Anna, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), pp. 277–294 | Chapter
The importance of dialect in indexing identity has been well described for ethnic and regional dialects, such as African American English (e.g. Rickford & Rickford 2000) and Pittsburghese (e.g. Johnstone & Kiesling 2008), but not so much for national dialect (although Portnoy 2011 on Austrian… read more
2019 The relative pronoun strategy: New data from southern New Guinea Studies in Language 43:4, pp. 997–1014 | Article
The Relative Pronoun strategy is commonly used for relativization in European languages such as English – for example: The woman [ who won the lottery ] is my neighbour. In this strategy the head nominal (here the woman) is indicated inside the relative clause by a clause-initial pronominal… read more
2014 Measuring analyticity and syntheticity in creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:1, pp. 49–85 | Article
Creoles (here including expanded pidgins) are commonly viewed as being more analytic than their lexifiers and other languages in terms of grammatical marking. The purpose of the study reported in this article was to examine the validity of this view by measuring the frequency of analytic (and… read more
2011 Substrate reinforcement and the retention of Pan-Pacific Pidgin features in modern contact varieties Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 531–556 | Article
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many grammatical features of Pacific Pidgin English, New South Wales Pidgin English and Chinese Pidgin English were attested in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), Solomon Islands, New Guinea Islands, Hawai‘i and the Northern Territory of Australia.… read more
2009 Chinese Pidgin English in Southeastern Australia: The notebook of Jong Ah Siug Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:2, pp. 306–337 | Article
More than 38,000 Chinese came to Australia to prospect for gold in the second half of the 19th century. Most of them originated from the Canton region of China (now Guangdong), where Chinese Pidgin English (CPE) was an important trading language. This article describes a recently discovered source… read more
2008 3. In praise of the cafeteria principle: Language mixing in Hawai'i Creole Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates, Michaelis, Susanne Maria (ed.), pp. 59–82 | Article
Bickerton (1981) argues against the influence of substrate languages in creoles, using the term “cafeteria principle” to ridicule the idea that a language could select features from various sources like items chosen for lunch at a cafeteria. However, this chapter demonstrates that several aspects… read more
2007 Transmission and transfer Deconstructing Creole, Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 167–201 | Article
2007 Introduction Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Siegel, Jeff, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Article
2006 Links between SLA and Creole studies: Past and present L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 15–46 | Chapter
2005 Creolization outside Creolistics Creole Language in Creole Literatures, Mühleisen, Susanne (ed.), pp. 141–166 | Miscellaneous
Looking up ‘creolization’ on any data base, or doing a search at amazon.com or simply googling the term will show that it is more widely used outside linguistics than inside – especially in anthropology, sociology, history and literary studies. Jourdan (2001: 2903) notes that the term has been… read more
2005 Terry Crowley 1953–2005 Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:2, pp. 325–343 | Miscellaneous
2005 Applied Creolistics Revisited Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:2, pp. 293–323 | Miscellaneous
2004 Review of Velupillai (2003): Hawai‘i Creole English: A Typological Analysis of the Tense-Mood-Aspect System English World-Wide 25:2, pp. 287–299 | Review article
2004 Morphological Elaboration Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 19:2, pp. 333–362 | Article
2004 Morphological simplicity in Pidgins and Creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 19:1, pp. 139–162 | Miscellaneous
2001 7. Koine formation and creole genesis Creolization and Contact, Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 175 ff. | Article
1999 Changing Attitudes towards Australian Creoles and Aboriginal English Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 265 ff. | Article
1999 Transfer Constraints and Substrate Influence in Melanesian Pidgin Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:1, pp. 1–44 | Article
This study examines research on transfer in second language acquisition (SLA) in order to identify situational and linguistic factors which may constrain the influence of substrate languages on the developing grammar of a pidgin or creole. A distinction is made between the earlier transfer of L1… read more
1998 Literacy in Melanesian and Australian Pidgins and Creoles English World-Wide 19:1, pp. 105–121 | Article
Recent descriptions of literacy in the English-lexified pidgins and Creoles of Melanesia and Australia have described it as being imposed by outsiders, irrelevant to speakers of these languages and unsuitable for use in formal education. This article presents an opposing point of view. First it… read more
1997 Mixing, leveling, and pidgin/creole development The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 111 ff. | Article
1993 Pidgins and Creoles in Education in Australia and the Southwest Pacific Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 299 ff. | Article
1990 Language Maintenance of Overseas Hindi Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987, Halliday, M.A.K. †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas (eds.), pp. 91 ff. | Article
1990 Pidgin English in Nauru Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:2, pp. 157–186 | Article
This article reports on a preliminary study of an English-lexifier Pidgin spoken on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru. This pidgin has distinctive features of both Chinese Pidgin English and Pacific Pidgin English, as well as many unique characteristics. Socio-historical information shows that… read more