Umberto Ansaldo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Umberto Ansaldo plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 2542-7059
Journal
ISSN 2452-1949 | E-ISSN 2452-2147
Pidgins and Creoles in Asia
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo
[Benjamins Current Topics, 38] 2012. ix, 170 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics
Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25:1 (2010) v, 199 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau
[Benjamins Current Topics, 25] 2010. vi, 291 pp.
Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau
Special issue of Studies in Language 32:3 (2008) 246 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Deconstructing Creole
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim
[Typological Studies in Language, 73] 2007. xii, 292 pp.
Subjects Creole studies | Typology
2021 Foundings and futures: How to live like a Peranakan in the post-digital ecology Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, Aboh, Enoch O. and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 243–267 | Chapter
This chapter contemplates the positioning of the Peranakans (also known as Straits-born Chinese or Babas) – descendants of southern Chinese seafaring traders to the Malay archipelago who married local women, and settled in the region – across different eras and ecologies. We provide a critical… read more
2019 Creole typology is analytic typology Language Ecology 3:1, pp. 89–119 | Article
This paper reviews a number of specific features typical of analytic languages, in an attempt to investigate whether Creole languages can indeed be grouped, at least structurally, with other languages of the analytic (or isolating) type. Based on Sybesma et al. (forthcoming), a study of the… read more
2012 China Coast Pidgin: Texts and contexts Pidgins and Creoles in Asia, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 59–90 | Article
In this paper we revisit some long-standing questions regarding the origins and structure of China Coast Pidgin (CCP), also known as Chinese Pidgin English. We first review the historical context of the China Trade which formed the ecology for the development of CCP. We then review the available… read more
2011 The Asian typology of English: Theoretical and methodological considerations The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.), pp. 11–26 | Chapter
2011 Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 367–382 | Article
Sri Lanka Malay is the vernacular language of the descendants of the Malay-Javanese diaspora of Sri Lanka. It is a restructured variety of Malay, which emerged from the prolonged contact between speakers of Malay varieties and speakers of Sinhala and Tamil varieties. The grammar shows a typological… read more
2011 The Cantonese substrate in China Coast Pidgin Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 289–301 | Article
The “Chinese” character of Chinese Pidgin English, or China Coast Pidgin (CCP) has been debated in previous work. While some Chinese-based features such as the use of piece(e) as a classifier are widely acknowledged, the extent of substrate influence has remained unclear. This paper surveys the… read more
2010 Foreword Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 1–3 | Article
2010 Review of Mesthrie (2008): Varieties of English
Africa, South and Southeast Asia English World-Wide 31:1, pp. 99–102 | Review
2010 Parts-of-Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Article
2010 China Coast Pidgin: Texts and contexts Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 63–94 | Article
In this paper we revisit some long-standing questions regarding the origins and structure of China Coast Pidgin (CCP), also known as Chinese Pidgin English. We first review the historical context of the China Trade which formed the ecology for the development of CCP. We then review the available… read more
2009 Contact language formation in evolutionary terms Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 265–289 | Article
The aim of this paper is to present a view of contact language formation in which language creation in multilingual ecologies follows the same principles as language maintenance in monolingual ecologies, i.e. selection and replication of features available to speakers in a given environment. In… read more
2009 The Asian typology of English: Theoretical and methodological considerations The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.), pp. 133–148 | Article
This paper looks at the emergence of Asian English varieties in terms of the evolution of new grammatical features. I propose that, in order to reach a thorough understanding of how the unique combination of grammatical features that define specific Asian Englishes come about, we must approach… read more
2009 Complexity and the age of languages Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 345–363 | Article
This paper addresses the issue of complexity in language creation and the time it takes for ‘complex’ structures to emerge in the history of a language. The presence of morphological material is often equated to a certain degree of complexity or is taken to signify a certain time-depth in the… read more
2008 Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages, Harrison, K. David, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer (eds.), pp. 13–42 | Article
This paper presents a fresh take on the origins and nature of Sri Lanka Malay (SLM), based on fieldwork data collected in 2003–2005 in Kirinda, in the south-east of Sri Lanka. It departs from previous studies of SLM in that it is based on substantial recordings of spoken data in natural settings as… read more
2008 Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 505–508 | Article
2007 The role of typology in language creation: A descriptive take Deconstructing Creole, Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 39–66 | Article
2007 Review of McWhorter (2005): Defining creole Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 170–176 | Review
2007 Deconstructing creole: The rationale Deconstructing Creole, Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2007 The sociolinguistic history of the Peranakans: What it tells us about 'creolization' Deconstructing Creole, Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 203–226 | Article
2004 6. The evolution of Singapore English: Finding the matrix Singapore English: A grammatical description, Lim, Lisa (ed.), pp. 127–150 | Chapter
2004 Phonetic absence as syntactic prominence: Grammaticalization in isolating tonal languages Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization, Fischer, Olga, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 345–362 | Article
2004 1. The origins of Macanese reduplication Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève and Armin Schwegler (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Chapter
2004 3. Nouns and noun phrases Singapore English: A grammatical description, Lim, Lisa (ed.), pp. 57–74 | Chapter
2003 Review of Croft (2000): Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach Functions of Language 10:1, pp. 122–128 | Review