Norval Smith

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Norval Smith plays a role.

Book series

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ISSN 0920-9026

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Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken

Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh

[Contact Language Library, 57] 2020. ix, 400 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles

Jacques Arends

[Creole Language Library, 52] 2017. xxix, 463 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz

[Creole Language Library, 43] 2012. vii, 287 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Complex Processes in New Languages

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith

[Creole Language Library, 35] 2009. vii, 409 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Substrate Influence in Creole Formation

Edited by Bettina Migge and Norval Smith

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:1 (2007) 200 pp.

Subjects Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Edited by Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra

[Creole Language Library, 23] 2001. vi, 323 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction

Edited by Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith

[Creole Language Library, 15] 1994. xv, 412 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies

Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985

Edited by Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith

[Creole Language Library, 1] 1986. vii, 311 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics

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Smith, Norval and Frans Hinskens 2020 Pottefers Cant, Groenstraat Bargoens, and the development of “have” and “be” in the wider context of contact Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 283–338 | Chapter

Our article falls into two parts. In the first part we compare two “secret” or replacive Dutch languages, Potteferstaal (Pot-repairers language) and Groenstraat Bargoens (Groenstraat cant), which developed in and around eastern Belgium and the southeastern fringe of the Netherlands, respectively. read more

Veenstra, Tonjes, Norval Smith and Enoch O. Aboh 2020 Introduction. Pieter C. Muysken: A brief biography, a language contact bibliography and a Festschrift summary Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Chapter

Smith, Norval 2017 Krio as the Western Maroon Creole language of Jamaica, and the /na/ isogloss Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler, Cutler, Cecelia, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer (eds.), pp. 251–274 | Chapter

The nominal copula na appears uniquely in two sets of Atlantic English-lexifier creole languages: a) in what is called the Maroon Spirit Language used among the Eastern Maroons of Jamaica. Now confined to ritual use, it was formerly the daily language of the Eastern Maroons; b) in Krio, spoken in… read more

Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith 2012 The morphosyntax of non-iconic reduplications: A case study in Eastern Gbe and the Surinam creoles The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages, Aboh, Enoch O., Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz (eds.), pp. 27–76 | Article

In this paper, we have studied non-iconic reduplication in Eastern Gbe languages (viz., Fongbe and Gungbe) and Suriname creoles (viz., Sranan and Saramaccan). We have shown that in the Surinam Creoles, as well as in the Gbe languages, such non-iconic reduplication is conditioned by a unique… read more

Aboh, Enoch O., Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz 2012 Reduplication beyond the word level: A cross-linguistic view The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages, Aboh, Enoch O., Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article

Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith 2009 Simplicity, simplification, complexity and complexification: Where have the interfaces gone? Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article

Smith, Norval 2009 English-speaking in early Surinam? Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 305–326 | Article

I assess the opportunities of English-learning for slaves in early Surinam. Under the gradualist approach no creole could develop until the population balance had shifted significantly in favour of the slaves. With the population figures given by Arends for the years 1675, 1684 and 1695, I… read more

Smith, Norval 2009 Simplification of a complex part of grammar or not? What happened to KiKoongo nouns in Saramaccan? Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 51–73 | Article

In this article I attempt to approach the question of what effect the incorporation of a large number of KiKoongo vocabulary items by the creole languages of Surinam had vis-a-vis notions of simplification or complexification. So, we have the situation of a language lacking an extensive noun-class… read more

Smith, Norval 2008 6. The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan: Implications for sociohistory Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates, Michaelis, Susanne Maria (ed.), pp. 153–168 | Article

The aim of this article is to try and trace the source of a phonological change that applies only in the Portuguese-derived lexicon in Saramaccan. Saramaccan is a mainly English-lexifier maroon creole language with a very substantial Portuguese element in its vocabulary. This phonological change,… read more

Botma, Bert and Norval Smith 2007 A dependency-based typology of nasalisation and voicing phenomena Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007, Los, Bettelou and Marjo van Koppen (eds.), pp. 36–48 | Article

Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith 2007 Introduction: Substrate influence in creole formation Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article

Smith, Norval and Klaske van Leyden 2007 The Unusual Outcome of a Level-Stress Situation: The Case of Wursten Frisian NOWELE Volume 52 (October 2007), pp. 31–66 | Article

Smith, Norval and Vinije Haabo 2007 The Saramaccan implosives: Tools for linguistic archaeology? Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 101–122 | Article

This paper takes as its starting point the recently discovered fact that Saramaccan contrasts two types of voiced labial and coronal stop, plain and implosive. The plain labials appear to be modern in origin, something which cannot be said about their coronal counterparts. So we reconstruct an… read more

Botma, Bert and Norval Smith 2006 A dependency account of the fortis–lenis contrast in Cama Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, Weijer, Jeroen van de and Bettelou Los (eds.), pp. 15–27 | Article

Smith, Norval 2006 Very rapid Creolization in the framework of the restricted motivation hypothesis L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 49–65 | Article

Smith, Norval 2001 2. Voodoo Chile: Differential substrate effects in Saramaccan and Haitian Creolization and Contact, Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 43–80 | Article

Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra 2001 Introduction Creolization and Contact, Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article

Smith, Norval 1999 Review of Huttar & Huttar (1995): Ndyuka Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:2, pp. 390–398 | Review

Smith, Norval 1997 Shrinking and Hopping Vowels in Northern Cape York: Minimally Different Systems Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory, Hinskens, Frans, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 267–302 | Article

Adamson, Lilian and Norval Smith 1994 18. Sranan Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 219–232 | Chapter

Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith 1994 25. Conclusions Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 319–330 | Chapter

Arends, Jacques, Silvia Kouwenberg and Norval Smith 1994 9. Theories focusing on the non-European input Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 99–109 | Chapter

Bakker, Peter, Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra 1994 14. Saramaccan Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 165–178 | Chapter

Besten, Hans den, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith 1994 8. Theories focusing on the European input Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 87–98 | Chapter

Muysken, Pieter and Norval Smith 1994 22. Reflexives Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 271–288 | Chapter

Muysken, Pieter and Norval Smith 1994 1. The study of pidgin and creole languages Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 3–14 | Chapter

Smith, Norval 1994 26. An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 331–374 | Chapter