Pieter Muysken

List of John Benjamins publications for which Pieter Muysken plays a role.

Journal

Book series

Titles

Heritage Languages: A language contact approach

Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken

[Studies in Bilingualism, 58] 2019. xix, 302 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Subordination in Native South American Languages

Edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken

[Typological Studies in Language, 97] 2011. viii, 315 pp.
Subjects Languages of South America | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics

Edited by Pieter Muysken

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 90] 2008. vii, 293 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

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
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Muysken, Pieter and Geneviève Escure 2022 Creole linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 408–425 | Chapter
Muysken, Pieter 2021 Substrate influence in Northern Quechua languagesVariation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, Aboh, Enoch O. and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 133–160 | Chapter
Quechua language varieties spread northward into parts of Ecuador, Colombia, and Northern Peru, and were adopted as a native language by speakers of earlier Pacific, Highland, and Amazonian languages in a process of language shift. This process started in the fifteenth century with the Inca… read more
Muysken, Pieter 2019 Description, linguistics 1.0. Theory, linguistics 3.0?Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019, Berns, Janine and Elena Tribushinina (eds.), pp. 37–42 | Article
Muysken, Pieter 2017 Chapter 13. The global and the local: Making comparisons possibleMultidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bellamy, Kate, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 313–321 | Chapter
Sluijs, Robbert van, Pieter Muysken and Bettelou Los 2017 Chapter 12. Verb particle combinations and word order change in Dutch-lexifier creole languagesWord Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade, Los, Bettelou and Pieter de Haan (eds.), pp. 265–290 | Chapter
This paper discusses the development and structural properties of verb + particle combinations in various creole languages for which Dutch was the main lexifier: Afrikaans, Berbice Dutch Creole, and Virgin Islands Dutch Creole (Negerhollands). In addition, it examines creole languages which have… read more
Yakpo, Kofi and Pieter Muysken 2014 Language change in a multiple contact setting: The case of Sarnami (Suriname)Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters, Buchstaller, Isabelle, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily (eds.), pp. 101–140 | Article
The South American nation of Suriname features a situation of multiple language contact in which speakers use various languages in changing constellations, and often simultaneously. Sarnami (Surinamese Hindustani) shows traces of koineization of various Indian languages, and the effects of… read more
Aalberse, Suzanne and Pieter Muysken 2013 Language contact in heritage languages 
in the NetherlandsLinguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches, Duarte, Joana and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 253–274 | Article
This paper discusses heritage languages (HLs) in the Netherlands. First, different types of motivations for the study of heritage languages in general are presented, since the type of motivation for the interest in heritage speakers has a large impact on the type of phenomenon researched. Formal,… read more
Muysken, Pieter and Julian A. Rott 2013 Ethnolect studies in the German and the Netherlandic area: An overviewMultilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education, Siemund, Peter, Ingrid Gogolin, Monika Edith Schulz and Julia Davydova (eds.), pp. 177–206 | Article
This paper compares the research on ethnolects in two regions of Europe, the German (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) and Netherlandic (Flanders and the Netherlands) speaking areas. We compare the research on this topic with the social constellations (immigration) and political debate (public… read more
Wouden, Ton van der and Pieter Muysken 2012 IntroductionRoots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten, Wouden, Ton van der (ed.), pp. 1–6 | Article
Aboh, Enoch O., Adrienne Bruyn, James Essegbey, Silvia Kouwenberg, Rocky R. Meade, Pieter Muysken, Margot van den Berg and Tonjes Veenstra 2011 A Tribute to Norval SmithJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:2, pp. 235–246 | Article
Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken 2011 Subordination in South America: An overviewSubordination in Native South American Languages, Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
Muysken, Pieter 2011 Relative clauses in Ecuadorian QuechuaSubordination in Native South American Languages, Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken (eds.), pp. 251–266 | Article
In this paper an attempt is made to analyze some of the strategies used in Ecuadorian Quechua to form relative clauses. The focus in the paper lies on the interaction between tense specification and specification of grammatical relations within the nominalized relative clause in several varieties… read more
In this paper I analyze in detail the processes that have led to the virtual disappearance of Uchumataqu, an Uru language of the Bolivian altiplano. Five possible causes of the decay of the language are explored: (a) urban migration; (b) socio-economic restructuring and ethnic reorientation; (c)… read more
Muysken, Pieter 2010 Ethnolects as a multidimensional phenomenonLanguage Contact: New perspectives, Norde, Muriel, Bob de Jonge and Cornelius Hasselblatt (eds.), pp. 7–26 | Article
This paper contrasts two different views of the phenomenon of ethnolect, ethnic varieties of a language: the shift perspective and the multidimensional perspective. In the shift perspective, the focus is on the approximation in the speech of ethnic groups to the dominant national target language,… read more
Muysken, Pieter 2009 Gradual restructuring in Ecuadorian QuechuaGradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 77–100 | Article
The notion of gradual restructuring, pioneered by Jacques Arends, offers a way to arrive at a perspective on language genesis responsive to language typology and language history. I would like to contribute to this approach by looking at restructured Ecuadorian varieties of Quechua. The type of… read more
Muysken, Pieter 2006 Een Model Voor TaalcontactThema's en trends in de sociolinguistiek 5, pp. 13–19 | Article
In a number of domains of language contact studies important progress has been made, including Creole studies, code switching and code mixing, second language acquisition, linguistic borrowing, and language areas. Less attention has been paid to the conceptual links between these fields. These… read more
Muysken, Pieter and Geneviève Escure 2006 Creole linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
Muysken, Pieter 2001 6. The origin of creole languages: The perspective of second language learningCreolization and Contact, Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 157 ff. | Article
Muysken, Pieter 1997 Media LenguaContact Languages: A wider perspective, Thomason, Sarah G. (ed.), pp. 365–426 | Article
Muysken, Pieter 1997 CallahuayaContact Languages: A wider perspective, Thomason, Sarah G. (ed.), pp. 427–447 | Article
Voort, Hein van der and Pieter Muysken 1996 Eighteenth-Century Negerhollands reflexives RevisitedThe Early Stages of Creolization, Arends, Jacques (ed.), pp. 25 ff. | Article
Muysken, Pieter 1995 Creole linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 198–204 | Article
Singh, Rajendra and Pieter Muysken 1995 Wanted: A Debate in Pidgin/Creole PhonologyJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10:1, pp. 157–169 | Miscellaneous
Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith 1994 25. ConclusionsPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 319–330 | Chapter
Bakker, Peter and Pieter Muysken 1994 4. Mixed languages and language intertwiningPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 41–52 | Chapter
Besten, Hans den, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith 1994 8. Theories focusing on the European inputPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 87–98 | Chapter
Kouwenberg, Silvia and Pieter Muysken 1994 17. PapiamentoPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 205–218 | Chapter
Muysken, Pieter 1994 The First Seven Years, Fat or Lean?Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:1, pp. 103–107 | Miscellaneous
Muysken, Pieter 1994 Saramaccan and Haitian: A ComparisonJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:2, pp. 305–314 | Miscellaneous
Muysken, Pieter and Norval Smith 1994 1. The study of pidgin and creole languagesPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 3–14 | Chapter
Muysken, Pieter and Norval Smith 1994 22. ReflexivesPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 271–288 | Chapter
Muysken, Pieter and Tonjes Veenstra 1994 23. Serial verbsPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 289–301 | Chapter
Muysken, Pieter and Tonjes Veenstra 1994 13. HaitianPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 153–164 | Chapter
Muysken, Pieter and Tonjes Veenstra 1994 11. Universalist approachesPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 121–134 | Chapter
In this paper we describe a number of features of the history of Negerhollands (Creole Dutch), spoken on the Danish Antilles, later U.S. Virgin Islands, between around 1700 and 1900 (the last remaining speaker died recently). Special attention is paid to early history and demography, linguistic… read more
Muysken, Pieter and Hein van der Voort 1991 The Binding Theory and Creolization: Evidence from 18th Century Negerhollands ReflexivesDevelopment and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton, Byrne, Francis and Thom Huebner (eds.), pp. 145 ff. | Article
Muysken, Pieter 1987 Loreto Todd. 1984. Modern Englishes. Pidgins and CreolesStudies in Language 11:1, pp. 276–277 | Miscellaneous
The present pilot-study was undertaken under the assumption that the acquisition of Dutch by migrant workers is governed by a complex set of social and individual factors including: - degree and kind of contact with Dutch people; - internalized norms governing the level of Dutch that migrants of… read more
ABSTRACT This research project dealt with the characteristics of Dutch Foreigner Talk (FT), that is, the way in which Dutch people talk to foreigners who speak little or no Dutch. The research was carried out in four parts: 1. an investigation of the way in which FT appears in popular literature; 2. read more