Readings in Creole Studies
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
Published online on 4 November 2013
Published online on 4 November 2013
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Forward | pp. vii–ix
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Part one: general theory
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1. Prolegomena to any sane creologyT. Givón | pp. 3–35
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2. Some remarks on the baby talk theory and the relexification theoryGeert Koefoed | pp. 37–54
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3. Simplification, pidginization and language changeWilliam J. Samarin | pp. 55–68
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4. Social interaction and the development of stabilized pidginsPaul Stoller | pp. 69–79
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5. On the origins of the term pidginIan F. Hancock | pp. 81–86
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Part two: african language related
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6. Some linguistic characteristics of African-based pidginsBernd Heine | pp. 89–98
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7. Commercial Dyula: a pidgin's first cousinPeter Gingiss | pp. 99–105
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8. Some further comments on Urban DioulaGayle Partmann | pp. 107–109
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9. The context is the message: morphological, syntactic and semantic reduction and deletion in Nairobi and Kampala varieties of SwahiliCarol Myers-Scotton | pp. 111–127
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10. Non-standard forms of Swahili in west-central KenyaJames J. Duran | pp. 129–151
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11. The origin and development of LingalaJan Knappert | pp. 153–164
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12. Free variation in the concord system of written LingalaFranz Rottland | pp. 165–171
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13. Fula: a language of changePhilip A. Noss | pp. 173–188
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14. French loanwords in Sango: the motivation of lexical borrowingCharles R. Taber | pp. 189–197
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Part three: Romance language related
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15. On the origin and chronology of the French-based creolesAlexander Hull | pp. 201–215
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16. Créoles français de l'Ocean Indien et langues africainesRobert Chaudenson | pp. 217–237
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17. Seychelles Creole French phonemicsChris Corne | pp. 239–251
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18. French and Creole in GuadeloupeDavid Bedford | pp. 253–257
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Part four: English related
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19. Creole English and Creole Portuguese: teh early recordsJ.L. Dillard | pp. 261–268
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20. Cameroonian Pidgin English: a neo-African languageCharles Gilman | pp. 269–280
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21. Cameroonian: a consideration of 'what's in a name?'Loreto Todd | pp. 281–294
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22. Ethnographic statement in the NIgerian novel, with special reference to PidginMary Hope Lee | pp. 295–302
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23. Uses of Pidgin in the early literate English of NigeriaElizabeth Tonkin | pp. 303–308
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24. The status of bin in the Atlantic creolesDerek Bickerton | pp. 309–314
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25. Across base-language boundries: the creole of Belize (British Honduras)Marlis Hellinger | pp. 315–333
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26. A note on creolization and the continuumLilith M. Haynes | pp. 335–338
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27. Why Black English retains so m any creoleElizabeth Closs Traugott | pp. 339–346
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List of contributors | pp. 347–350
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Notes on the editors | pp. 351–352
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2ZP: Linguistics/Pidgins & Creoles
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General