Peter Bakker

List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Bakker plays a role.

Book series

Journal

Titles

Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches

Edited by Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola

[Not in series, 211] 2017. x, 414 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Bibliographies in linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

The Typology and Dialectology of Romani

Edited by Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 156] 1997. xxxii, 223 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Other Indo-European languages | Typology

Articles

Large scale typological studies have been criticized for being unscientific, biased, methodologically unsound and as perpetrating neocolonial attitudes. Meakins (2022) echoes these views in her first JPCL column. The conclusions of all studies using large typological datasets, however, point in… read more
In 1898, a young Dane, Anker Jensen (1878–1937), published a pioneering study in which he investigated the linguistic situation in Aaby, then a village and parish located just west of Aarhus (the second-largest city of Denmark, in Jutland), and today an integrated part of the city. Anker… read more
Levisen, Carsten, Kristoffer Friis Bøegh, Peter Bakker, Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen and Inger Schoonderbeek Hansen 2022 The Linguistic Situation in the Parish of Aaby, Aarhus CountyHistoriographia Linguistica 49:2/3, pp. 355–371 | Translation
Bakker, Peter 2020 The quest for non-European creoles: Is Kukama (Brazil, Peru) a creole language?Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 85–106 | Chapter
Kukama has been classified firstly, as a Tupi-Guarani language, secondly, as a language that has undergone massive contact-induced change, and thirdly, as a creole. These different positions are surveyed against definitions of mixed languages and creoles, and properties of Tupi-Guarani languages. read more
Bakker, Peter 2018 Philip Baker (1940–2017)Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:2, pp. 231–239 | Obituary
Bakker, Peter 2017 Chapter 16. Feature pools show that creoles are distinct languages due to their special originCreole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 369–373 | Chapter
Bakker, Peter 2017 Chapter 10. Dutch creoles compared with their lexifierCreole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 219–240 | Chapter
In this chapter, we compare lexical and grammatical data from three Dutch-based creoles: Virgin Islands Creole Dutch, Berbice Creole and Skepi Dutch of Guyana. We consider the lexicons, as well as phonological and typological patterns, and both synchronic and diachronic comparisons are made.… read more
Bakker, Peter 2017 Chapter 2. Key concepts in the history of creole studiesCreole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 5–33 | Chapter
This chapter serves as a brief introduction to creole studies. It mostly deals with issues that are discussed in the book, but not exclusively. It starts with an introduction of terminology, and key terms are printed in CAPITALS. The second part presents a number of observations and claims that… read more
Bakker, Peter and Aymeric Daval-Markussen 2017 Chapter 5. Creole typology I: Comparative overview of creole languagesCreole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 79–101 | Chapter
This chapter provides an overview of structural properties of creole languages based on widely different languages and spoken in a broad geographic range. We discuss phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. Phonologically, creoles tend to have average properties. Creoles are generally not… read more
Bakker, Peter, Eeva M. Sippola and Finn Borchsenius 2017 Chapter 4. Methods: On the use of networks in the study of language contactCreole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 59–78 | Chapter
This chapter provides an overview of the phylogenetic models used in this book. In the introduction, we present the aims and limitations of the chapter and clarify some basic concepts. After presenting the steps of linguistic phylogenetic analyses, we proceed to explain the different data types… read more
Borchsenius, Finn, Aymeric Daval-Markussen and Peter Bakker 2017 Chapter 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguisticsCreole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 35–58 | Chapter
The main goal of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the parallels and commonalities that exist between the fields of biology and linguistics. Researchers from both fields faced similar problems when seeking to account for the descent and diversification of related entities (species,… read more
Daval-Markussen, Aymeric and Peter Bakker 2017 Chapter 6. Creole typology II: Typological features of creoles: from early proposals to phylogenetic approaches and comparisons with non-creolesCreole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 103–140 | Chapter
In the late 1950s, creolists started drawing lists of shared lexical and grammatical properties of creole languages. In this chapter, a number of proposals and features are presented. We show that few of the proposed common properties are in fact shared by all creoles. We also discuss… read more
Daval-Markussen, Aymeric, Kristoffer Friis Bøegh and Peter Bakker 2017 Chapter 7. West African languages and creoles worldwideCreole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 141–174 | Chapter
In creole studies, there has been a long tradition of discussing the respective contributions of African languages in the genesis of creoles spoken primarily in the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans. Creolists have often assumed that the African languages that contributed to the creation of creoles… read more
Levisen, Carsten, Eeva M. Sippola and Peter Bakker 2017 Chapter 1. IntroductionCreole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches, Bakker, Peter, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva M. Sippola (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Chapter
Bakker, Peter 2014 Creoles and typology: Problems of sampling and definitionArabic-based Pidgins and Creoles, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 437–455 | Article
Bakker, Peter 2014 Creolistics: Back to square one?Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:1, pp. 177–194 | Article
Bakker, Peter 2013 Diachrony and typology in the history of Cree (Algonquian, Algic)Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs, Josephson, Folke and Ingmar Söhrman (eds.), pp. 223–260 | Article
Cree and most of the other Algonquian languages show a number of typological unusual and inconsistent features. In this paper it is attempted to make sense of those, by applying internal reconstruction. The features discussed include the structural parallels between NP structure and VP structure,… read more
Bakker, Peter, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, Mikael Parkvall and Ingo Plag 2013 Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creolesCreole Languages and Linguistic Typology, Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 9–45 | Article
In creolist circles, there has been a long-standing debate whether creoles differ structurally from non-creole languages and thus would form a special class of languages with specific typological properties. This debate about the typological status of creole languages has severely suffered from a… read more
Bakker, Peter, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, Mikael Parkvall and Ingo Plag 2011 Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creolesCreoles and Typology, Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 5–42 | Article
In creolist circles, there has been a a long-standing debate whether creoles differ structurally from non-creole languages and thus would form a special class of languages with specific typological properties. This debate about the typological status of creole languages has severely suffered from… read more
Daval-Markussen, Aymeric and Peter Bakker 2011 A phylogenetic networks approach to the classification of English-based Atlantic creolesEnglish World-Wide 32:2, pp. 115–146 | Article
This paper deals with the issue of genetic relationships between English-based Atlantic creoles. A method borrowed from biology will be applied to a set of lexical and structural features found in the sample presented in Hancock (1987) in order to assess the degrees of affinity between these… read more
Bakker, Peter 2009 The Saramaccan lexicon: VerbsGradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 155–172 | Article
In this paper the inventory of verbs of Saramaccan Creole is investigated. Saramaccan is a lexically mixed creole, with mostly English and Portuguese lexicon. Even though it has been shown earlier that the Portuguese elements were superimposed on a preexisting English frame (Smith 1987), more verbs… read more
Creole languages display systems of marking tense, mood and aspect (TAM) that are rather different from what is commonly found in non-creoles, but at the same time highly similar across creoles. In this chapter I will show some of these similarities and differences, and try to explain them with… read more
Crevels, Mily and Peter Bakker 2000 External possession in RomaniGrammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Elšík, Viktor and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 151 ff. | Article
Bakker, Peter 1997 Athematic morphology in Romani: The borrowing of a borrowing patternThe Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article
Bakker, Peter and Robert A. Papen 1997 Michif: A mixed Language Based on Cree and FrenchContact Languages: A wider perspective, Thomason, Sarah G. (ed.), pp. 295–363 | Article
Bakker, Peter and Yaron Matras 1997 IntroductionThe Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. vii ff. | Miscellaneous
Bakker, Peter 1994 3. PidginsPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 25–39 | Chapter
Bakker, Peter and Pieter Muysken 1994 4. Mixed languages and language intertwiningPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 41–52 | Chapter
Bakker, Peter, Marike Post and Hein van der Voort 1994 20. TMA particules and auxiliariesPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 247–258 | Chapter
Bakker, Peter, Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra 1994 14. SaramaccanPidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 165–178 | Chapter
Bakker, Peter 1989 A French-Icelandic Nautical PidginJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 4:1, pp. 129–132 | Short note
The paper deals with a Basque Nautical Pidgin from which a number of sentences have been preserved in a seventeenth century Basque-Icelandic word list. These sentences are interesting for several reasons. First, Basque may throw an interesting light on the pidginization process because it is not an… read more