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
2022 Creole linguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 408–425 | Chapter
2011 African substratal influence on the counterfactual in Belizean Creole Creoles, 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
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 | Miscellaneous
2006 Creole linguistics Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
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 | Chapter
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 | 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
2000 Review of Valdman (1997): French and Creole in Louisiana Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:2, pp. 360–364 | Review
1993 Review of Seuren & Mufwene (1990): Issues in creole linguistics Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 8:1, pp. 140–147 | Review
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. 233–248 | Article
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. 179–192 | Article
1988 Topic Structures As Language Universals Journal 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
1987 Review of Görlach & Holm (1986): Focus on the Caribbean Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2:2, pp. 259–265 | Review
1985 18. The Belizean copula: A case of semantactic shift Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach, Dascal, Marcelo † (ed.), pp. 265–284 | Chapter
1983 Belizean Creole Central American English, Holm, John † (ed.), pp. 29–70 | Article