Rachel Selbach

List of John Benjamins publications for which Rachel Selbach plays a role.

Title

Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends

Edited by Rachel Selbach, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg

[Creole Language Library, 34] 2009. x, 392 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Berg, Margot van den and Rachel Selbach 2009 One more cup of coffee: On Gradual Creolization Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 3–12 | Article

Selbach, Rachel 2008 2. The superstrate is not always the lexifier: Lingua Franca in the Barbary Coast 1530-1830 Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates, Michaelis, Susanne Maria (ed.), pp. 29–58 | Article

The terms superstrate and substrate seem to lose some of their predictive force in the earliest documented European contact language. While Lingua Franca (LF) is best known for its purported origins as a trade pidgin used across all areas of the Mediterranean, the vast majority of actually… read more