Anthony P. Grant

List of John Benjamins publications for which Anthony P. Grant plays a role.

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Subjects Historical linguistics

Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh

Edited by Søren Wichmann and Anthony P. Grant

Special issue of Diachronica 27:2 (2010) v, 168 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics
Grant, Anthony P. 2024 Review of Popova & Takata (2017): Slovari Kyakhtinskogo PidzhinaAustralian 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 AreaAustralian 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 languagesJournal 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
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. 2012 Mindanao Chabacano and other ‘mixed creoles’: Sourcing the morphemic componentsIbero-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
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
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 ChabacanoCreoles, 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
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 Swadesh’s life and place in linguisticsQuantitative 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 structureComplex 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 prototypeDeconstructing 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 considerationsNoun 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
Grant, Anthony P. 2001 3. Language intertwining: Its depiction in recent literature and its implications for theories of creolisationCreolization and Contact, Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 81–112 | Article