Creoles, contact, and language change : linguistics and social implications / edited by Genevieve Escure, Armin Schwegler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Escure, Geneviève.

Schwegler, Armin, 1955-

Series:

Creole language library ; v. 27.

Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creole dialects.

Languages in contact.

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists' current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax.

Contents:

Creoles, Contact, and Language Change

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Contents

Preface

1. The origins of Macanese reduplication

References

Notes

2. Court records as a source of authentic early Sranan

Archival sources

3. Garifuna in Belize and Honduras

4. The Nova Scotia-Sierra Leone connection

Appendix

5. The development of variable NP plural agreement in a restructured African variety of Portuguese

6. Second language acquisition in creole genesis

7. OT and the acquisition of Jamaican syllable structure

8. Double-object constructions in two Frenchbased creoles (Morisyen and Seselwa)

9. Passive voice in Papiamento

10. Tone assignment on lexical items of English and African origin in Krio

11. TMA and the St. Lucian Creole verb phrase

12. The Limonese calypso as an identity marker

Discography

13. The speech event kuutu in the Eastern Maroon community

14. Reflexivity in French-based creoles

Sources

15. The role of style and identity in the development of Hawaiian Creole

Index

The series Creole Language Library.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160202

9781282160200

1282160206

9789027295088

9027295085