Anthony P. Grant

Grant, Anthony P. 2024 Review of Popova & Takata (2017): Slovari Kyakhtinskogo Pidzhina Australian Contact Languages, O'Shannessy, Carmel, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson (eds.), pp. 307–311 | Review

Grant, Anthony P. 2024 Review of Rivera-Castillo (2022): A description of Papiamentu: a Creole Language of the Caribbean Area Australian Contact Languages, O'Shannessy, Carmel, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson (eds.), pp. 302–306 | Review

Benítez-Torres, Carlos M. and Anthony P. Grant 2017 On the origin of some Northern Songhay mixed languages Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:2, pp. 263–303 | Article

This paper discusses the origins of linguistic elements in three Northern Songhay languages of Niger and Mali: Tadaksahak, Tagdal and Tasawaq. Northern Songhay languages combine elements from Berber languages, principally Tuareg forms, and from Songhay; the latter provides inflectional morphology… read more

Grant, Anthony P. 2017 Velupillai, Viveka. 2014. Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages: An Introduction Studies in Language 41:3, pp. 808–812 | Review

Grant, Anthony P. 2015 Review of Dû, Brun-Trigaud, Bernabé & Damoiseau (2011/2013): Atlas linguistique des Petites Antilles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 30:2, pp. 370–372 | Review

Grant, Anthony P. 2014 The ‘language of Tobi’ as presented in Horace Holden’s Narrative: Evidence for restructuring and lexical mixture in a Nuclear Micronesian-based pidgin Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters, Buchstaller, Isabelle, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily (eds.), pp. 41–56 | Article

In 1836 the American sailor and trader Horace Holden published an account of two years’ captivity on the island of Tobi, western Carolines, to which he appended a short vocabulary and numerous sentences in ‘the language of Tobi’. Examination of this material shows that most of the identifiable… read more

Grant, Anthony P. 2013 Review of Heggarty & Beresford Jones (2012): Archaeology and Language in the Andes: A cross-disciplinary exploration of prehistory Diachronica 30:2, pp. 281–286 | Review

Grant, Anthony P. 2012 Swadesh’s life and place in linguistics Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article

Grant, Anthony P. 2012 Mindanao Chabacano and other ‘mixed creoles’: Sourcing the morphemic components Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives, Cardoso, Hugo C., Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes (eds.), pp. 327–364 | Article

Mindanao Chabacano owes many of its features (including over 10% of its basic and more of its non-basic lexicon) to the influence of Philippine languages, and some of its typological features, such as the basic VSO constituent order, typify Philippine languages but atypical of Ibero-Asian creoles… read more

Grant, Anthony P. 2012 On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history: Some techniques and case studies Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 87–111 | Article

Following certain aspects of the work on lexicostatistics carried out in the 1960s and published thereafter (Hooley 1971, Miller et al. 1971, Miller 1984) and thereby working in a tradition which has most recently been practised by Ringe et al. (1997, 2001), among others, I maintain that much of… read more

Grant, Anthony P. and Diana Guillemin 2012 The complex of creole typological features: The case of Mauritian Creole Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:1, pp. 48–104 | Article

This paper presents morphosyntactic and sentential information on Mauritian Creole (MC), a French-lexifier creole which has been underrepresented in many studies of Creole morphosyntactic typology. Typological features from Holm & Patrick (2007), Bickerton (1981, 1984), Taylor (1971, 1977), Markey… read more

Grant, Anthony P. 2011 Substrate influences in Mindanao Chabacano Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 303–324 | Article

Mindanao Chabacano (henceforth MC), a cluster of varieties of Philippine Creole Spanish with almost 600,000 speakers recorded in the 2000 Philippines census, is rather unusual among creole languages because it has been in constant contact both with its chief lexifier Spanish, and with the languages… read more

Grant, Anthony P. 2010 On using qualitative lexicostatistics to illuminate language history: Some techniques and case studies Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 277–300 | Article

Following certain aspects of the work on lexicostatistics carried out in the 1960s and published thereafter (Hooley 1971, Miller et al. 1971, Miller 1984) and thereby working in a tradition which has most recently been practised by Ringe et al. (1997, 2001), among others, I maintain that much of… read more

Grant, Anthony P. 2010 Review of Léglise & Migge (2007): Pratiques et réprésentations linguistiques en Guyane: Regards croisés Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 195–199 | Review

Grant, Anthony P. 2010 Swadesh’s life and place in linguistics Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 191–196 | Article

Grant, Anthony P. 2009 Contact, complexification and change in Mindanao Chabacano structure Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 223–241 | Article

This paper examines several instances of phonological and structural complexification in Mindanao Chabacano, a predominantly Spanish-lexifier creole of southwestern Mindanao, which have arisen as the result of the interaction of elements of Philippine (especially Tagalog and the Bisayan languages),… read more

Grant, Anthony P. 2007 Admixture and after: The Chamic languages and the Creole prototype Deconstructing Creole, Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 109–139 | Article

Grant, Anthony P. 2007 6. Some aspects of NPs in Mindanao Chabacano: Structural and historical considerations Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 173–204 | Chapter

This paper examines certain aspects of NP structure and use in Mindanao Chabacano (henceforth MC). This is a mixed creole of the Southern Philippines in which the bulk of the morphs derive from the Mexican Spanish which was the major language of intercommunication among the soldiers of the… read more