Geneviève Escure

List of John Benjamins publications for which Geneviève Escure plays a role.

Titles

Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications

Edited by Geneviève Escure and Armin Schwegler

[Creole Language Library, 27] 2004. x, 355 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Language acquisition

Articles

Muysken, Pieter and Geneviève Escure 2022 Creole linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 408–425 | Chapter
Escure, Geneviève 2011 African substratal influence on the counterfactual in Belizean CreoleCreoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 181–200 | Article
Belizean Creole (BC) has a counterfactual structure expressed by a preverbal combination of the past and future morphemes (me wan V). There is no equivalent structure in the English superstrate of Belizean Creole, so the possibility of the continuity and transmission of African substratal features… 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
Escure, Geneviève 2004 3. Garifuna in Belize and HondurasCreoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève and Armin Schwegler (eds.), pp. 35–65 | Chapter
Escure, Geneviève 2001 Belizean Creole. Gender, creole, and the role of women in language changeGender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), pp. 53–84 | Article
1.Problems of definition 1.1 Gender and sex in society 1.2 Pidgins and creoles 2. Focus on Belize 2.1 Sociolinguistic background 2.2 English influence on Belizean Creole 2.3 Previous studies of gender in Belize 2.4 Gender in nominal reference and proverbs 3. … read more
Escure, Geneviève 1991 Serialization in Creole Oral DiscourseDevelopment and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton, Byrne, Francis and Thom Huebner (eds.), pp. 179 ff. | Article
Escure, Geneviève 1988 Topic Structures As Language UniversalsJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 3:2, pp. 159–176 | Article
The continuous process of language mixing which takes place in the development of creole continua is particularly suited to favor the emergence of language universals. Topic-comment structures are found to be extensively used in English-based Caribbean basilects. Furthermore, topic prominence is… read more
Escure, Geneviève 1985 18. The Belizean copula: A case of semantactic shiftDialogue: An interdisciplinary approach, Dascal, Marcelo † (ed.), pp. 265 ff. | Chapter
Escure, Geneviève 1983 Belizean CreoleCentral American English, Holm, John † (ed.), pp. 29 ff. | Article