Readings in Creole Studies

Editor

Ian F. Hancock

Collaborator

Edgar C. Polomé

Morris Goodman

Bernd Heine

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Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and theoretical aspects of over twenty pidgins and creoles. Part one deals with general theoretical issues, especially those relating to pidgin language formation and expansion. Part two deals with those pidgins and creoles lexically related to indigenous African languages, and with incipient features of creolization in African languages themselves; part three with those related to Romance languages, and part four with those related to English. Throughout the volume, several current debates are taken up, including the still unsettled issues of creole language origins and classification.

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 2] 1979. xiv, 352 pp.

Publishing status: Available | Original publisher: E. Story-Scientia

https://doi.org/10.1075/ssls.2

Table of Contents

Forward	vii–ix
Part one: general theory
1. Prolegomena to any sane creology T. Givón	3–35
2. Some remarks on the baby talk theory and the relexification theory Geert Koefoed	37–54
3. Simplification, pidginization and language change William J. Samarin	55–68
4. Social interaction and the development of stabilized pidgins Paul Stoller	69–79
5. On the origins of the term pidgin Ian F. Hancock	81–86
Part two: african language related
6. Some linguistic characteristics of African-based pidgins Bernd Heine	89–98
7. Commercial Dyula: a pidgin's first cousin Peter Gingiss	99–105
8. Some further comments on Urban Dioula Gayle Partmann	107–109
9. The context is the message: morphological, syntactic and semantic reduction and deletion in Nairobi and Kampala varieties of Swahili Carol Myers-Scotton	111–127
10. Non-standard forms of Swahili in west-central Kenya James J. Duran	129–151
11. The origin and development of Lingala Jan Knappert	153–164
12. Free variation in the concord system of written Lingala Franz Rottland	165–171
13. Fula: a language of change Philip A. Noss	173–188
14. French loanwords in Sango: the motivation of lexical borrowing Charles R. Taber	189–197
Part three: Romance language related
15. On the origin and chronology of the French-based creoles Alexander Hull	201–215
16. Créoles français de l'Ocean Indien et langues africaines Robert Chaudenson	217–237
17. Seychelles Creole French phonemics Chris Corne	239–251
18. French and Creole in Guadeloupe David Bedford	253–257
Part four: English related
19. Creole English and Creole Portuguese: teh early records J.L. Dillard	261–268
20. Cameroonian Pidgin English: a neo-African language Charles Gilman	269–280
21. Cameroonian: a consideration of 'what's in a name?' Loreto Todd	281–294
22. Ethnographic statement in the NIgerian novel, with special reference to Pidgin Mary Hope Lee	295–302
23. Uses of Pidgin in the early literate English of Nigeria Elizabeth Tonkin	303–308
24. The status of bin in the Atlantic creoles Derek Bickerton	309–314
25. Across base-language boundries: the creole of Belize (British Honduras) Marlis Hellinger	315–333
26. A note on creolization and the continuum Lilith M. Haynes	335–338
27. Why Black English retains so m any creole Elizabeth Closs Traugott	339–346
List of contributors	347–350
Notes on the editors	351–352

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Subjects

Linguistics

Creole studies

Contact Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF/2ZP – Linguistics/Pidgins & Creoles

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 80510006