Ian Smith

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ian Smith plays a role.

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Smith, Ian 2012 Measuring substrate influence: Word order features in Ibero-Asian Creoles Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives, Cardoso, Hugo C., Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes (eds.), pp. 125–148 | Article
Word order characteristics of the Ibero-Asian creoles are examined in order to determine the extent of influence of the lexifier and substrate(s) and to correlate this with the strength and extent of lexifier presence in the history of each creole. The design and application of a numerical metric… read more
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Smith, Ian 2010 Review of Siegel (2008): The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages Diachronica 27:1, pp. 177–188 | Review
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Smith, Ian and Scott Paauw 2006 Sri Lanka Malay: Creole or convert? Structure and Variation in Language Contact, Deumert, Ana and Stephanie Durrleman (eds.), pp. 159–181 | Chapter
Two sociolinguistic characteristics of Sri Lanka Malay (SLM) are atypical for a creole: a non-European, non-colonial lexifier (Vehicular Malay), and a single substrate (Sri Lanka Muslim Tamil) with which it remained in contact. The Tamil-like characteristics of present-day SLMdiffer from those… read more
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Smith, Ian 1993 Review of Jackson (1990): Sing without shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse, with transcription and analysis of a nineteenth-century manuscript of Ceylon Portuguese Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 8:2, pp. 291–296 | Review