Christine Jourdan

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christine Jourdan plays a role.

Title

L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues

Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 42] 2006. viii, 433 pp.

Subjects Creole studies | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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Jourdan, Christine and Johanne Angeli 2021 The development of weak normativity in Solomon Islands Pijin Approaches to Variation in Creole Studies, Léglise, Isabelle, Bettina Migge and Nicolas Quint (eds.), pp. 46–76 | Article

Pijin, the lingua franca of Solomon Islands, has acquired the functions of a creole in the capital city of Honiara. Yet, though Pijin is the common language of the urban culture of Honiara, it lacks linguistic legitimacy. Speakers of Pijin did not, until recently, consider it a true language in… read more

Jourdan, Christine 2009 Bilingualism and creolization in Solomon Islands Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 245–256 | Article

The paper takes a cultural approach to the study of creolization and argues that the expansion of Pijin as the lingua franca of the Solomon Islands was curtailed, during the greater part of its social history (1) by the fact that most adults were bilingual or multilingual and (2) that Pijin was not… read more

Jourdan, Christine 2009 Complexification or regularization of paradigms: The case of prepositional verbs in Solomon Islands Pijin Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 159–170 | Article

In Honiara, capital city of the Solomon Islands, speakers of the local variety of Pijin are making extensive usage of the transitive suffix -em (and its variants -im and -um) to transform prepositions into prepositional verbs: daon /down/ becomes daonem /to lower/; ap /up/ becomes apum /to raise/;… read more

Jourdan, Christine 2008 Language repertoires and the middle class in urban Solomon Islands Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 43–67 | Article

In Honiara, Solomon Islands, 64 vernacular languages coexist with Pijin, the lingua franca and linguistic cement of the town, and with English, the former colonial language. The chapter shows how the modalities of urban linguistic repertoires vary with different phases of Honiara’s transformation… read more

Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan 2006 Introduction L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Miscellaneous

Jourdan, Christine 1993 Review of Lefebvre & Lumsden (1989): Le créole haïtien Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 8:2, pp. 283–286 | Review