Diana Ursulin Mopsus
List of John Benjamins publications for which Diana Ursulin Mopsus plays a role.
Articles
2012 Influences of Houma ancestral languages on Houma French: West Muskogean features in Houma French Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles, Faraclas, Nicholas (ed.), pp. 185–214 | Article
By considering the emergence of Houma French in its political, social, and cultural context and by avoiding mono-causal scenarios for its development, we demonstrate how indigenous language patterns and indigenous agency can be traced, detected and validated in Houma French. An acknowledgement of… read more
2012 Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis: Sociétés de cohabitation and the Founder Principle Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles, Faraclas, Nicholas (ed.), pp. 215–224 | Article
The tendencies toward decontextualization, mono-causal scenarios, and the erasure of the agency of marginalized peoples that have been identified and criticized in the preceding chapters are more often than not due more to the outmoded paradigm of science within which most linguists and other… read more
2012 African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles, Faraclas, Nicholas (ed.), pp. 41–54 | Article
Because of their extreme marginalization in dominant colonial society, in more cases than not the significant role of people of African descent in shaping the history, politics, economics, cultures, and languages of the Caribbean and the rest of the Atlantic World has been consistently and… read more