Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications
Edited by Geneviève Escure and Armin Schwegler
[Creole Language Library, 27] 2004. x, 355 pp.
Geneviève Escure
List of John Benjamins publications for which Geneviève Escure plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Creole and Dialect Continua: Standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC)
Geneviève Escure
[Creole Language Library, 18] 1997. x, 307 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Language acquisition
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2022 Creole linguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 408–425
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2011 African substratal influence on the counterfactual in Belizean Creole Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 181–200
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 | Article
2008 Structure and variation in language contact. Edited by Ana Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23:1, pp. 170–174
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2006 Creole linguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–24
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2004 3. Garifuna in Belize and Honduras Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève and Armin Schwegler (eds.), pp. 35–65
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2004 Review of Bartens (2003): A Contrastive Grammar Islander-Caribbean Standard English-Spanish English World-Wide 25:1, pp. 148–152
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2002 Review of Greene (1999): A grammar of Belizean Creole: Compilations from two existing United States dialects Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:1, pp. 129–132
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2001 Belizean Creole. Gender, creole, and the role of women in language change Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), pp. 53–84
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 | Article
2000 Review of Valdman (1997): French and Creole in Louisiana Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:2, pp. 360–364
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1993 Review of Seuren & Mufwene (1990): Issues in creole linguistics Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 8:1, pp. 140–147
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1993 Focus, Topic Particles and Discourse Markers in the Belizean Creole Continuum Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages, Byrne, Francis and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 233 ff.
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1991 Serialization in Creole Oral Discourse Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton, Byrne, Francis and Thom Huebner (eds.), pp. 179 ff.
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1990 Review of Rickford (1987): Dimensions of a creole continuum: History, texts, & linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:1, pp. 152–155
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1989 Review of Gilbert (1987): Pidgin and creole languages: Essays in memory of John E. Reinecke Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 4:1, pp. 141–146
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1988 Topic Structures As Language Universals Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 3:2, pp. 159–176
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 | Article
1987 Review of Görlach & Holm (1986): Focus on the Caribbean Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2:2, pp. 259–265
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1985 18. The Belizean copula: A case of semantactic shift Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach, Dascal, Marcelo † (ed.), pp. 265 ff.
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