Peter Slomanson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Slomanson plays a role.
2024 Review of Lee (2022): A grammar of Baba Malay Australian Contact Languages, O'Shannessy, Carmel, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson (eds.), pp. 286–292 | Review
2021 Chapter 5. Cross-linguistic parallels and contrasts in a contact language perfect construction The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect, Eide, Kristin Melum and Marc Fryd (eds.), pp. 117–136 | Chapter
This paper is about semantically and pragmatically comparable perfect constructions in the contact languages Sri Lankan Malay (SLM) and Sri Lankan Portuguese (SLP). The goal of the paper is to show that non-finite participles based on a conjunctive participle model in the Sri Lankan linguistic… read more
2018 The development of infinitival complementation with or without language contact Changing Structures: Studies in constructions and complementation, Kaunisto, Mark, Mikko Höglund and Paul Rickman (eds.), pp. 197–213 | Chapter
Certain contact languages previously lacking a finiteness contrast have developed infinitival complementation. The late Old English and Sri Lankan Malay (SLM) constructions both involve to-infinitives seemingly based on prepositional phrases, specifically infinitival to + lexical verb in Old… read more
2018 Cross-linguistic negation contrasts in co-convergent contact languages Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles, Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri (eds.), pp. 289–311 | Chapter
Sri Lankan contact Malay (SLM) and Portuguese (SLP) share sprachbund-discordant features, including pre-verbal functional markers for TMA and negation. Yet their negation strategies also differ. In SLM, negation morphology is a diagnostic for the finiteness status of verbs. SLP verbs are… read more
2011 Dravidian features in the Sri Lankan Malay verb Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 383–409 | Article
The variety of Malay brought to Sri Lanka from Indonesia beginning in the mid-seventeenth century was a largely isolating SVO language, whose grammar has changed radically over time. Modern Sri Lankan Malay (SLM) remains a language of predominantly Austronesian lexical inventory, but its grammar is… read more
2009 Morphosyntactic finiteness as increased complexity in a mixed negation system Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 243–264 | Article
This paper presents data from negation in Sri Lankan Malay (SLM), a language whose grammar has converged typologically on the grammar of Sri Lankan Muslim Tamil, and to some extent of Sinhala. SLM negation exhibits greater inflectional complexity than its lexifier, by encoding finiteness and tense… read more
2006 Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax: Lankan or Malay? Structure and Variation in Language Contact, Deumert, Ana and Stephanie Durrleman (eds.), pp. 135–158 | Chapter
In this paper the convergence of Sri Lankan Malay on the grammars ofMuslim Tamil and colloquial Sinhala is discussed. This convergence is incomplete and its extent is asymmetrical across syntactic domains. The verbal domain remains closer to the syntax of other contact Malay varieties, as… read more
2004 Peer group identification and variation in New York Latino English laterals English World-Wide 25:2, pp. 199–216 | Article
Following recent work showing that adolescent peer culture affiliation correlates with phonological variation, our research explores the effect of peer identities and national heritages on the English of Latino students in a New York City high school. Data were gathered in sociolinguistic… read more
1993 Hesseling and Van Ginneken on Language Contact, Variation, and Creolization Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 419–430 | Article