Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on contact languages / edited by Magnus Huber, Viveka Velupillai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huber, Magnus.

Velupillai, Viveka, 1974-

Series:

Creole language library ; v. 32.

Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creole dialects.

Languages, Mixed.

Physical Description:

xii, 370 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory; synchronic analyses of both morphology and syntax; and diachronic tracings of language change, with special focus on sound patterns as well as semantics. An added value of the volume is that most of the articles are in various ways significant for more than one linguistic subgrouping, and there is a significant overlap of interests; the sections also cover sociolinguistic subjects, give both theoretical and functional linguistic analyses of language data, and discuss issues of grammaticalization. Thus, in discussing a number of issues relevant far beyond the study of pidgin and creole languages, as well as providing a wealth of linguistic data, this volume also contributes to the broader field of linguistics in general.

Contents:

Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Preface

Part I

1. Maintenance or assimilation?

2. Universal and substrate infl uence on the phonotactics and syllable structure of Krio

3. Tone on quantifiers in Saramaccan as a transferred feature from Kikongo

4. Morphophonological properties of pitch accents in Jamaican Creole reduplication

5. Effort reduction and the grammar

Part II

6. Reflexivity in Capeverdean

7. An additional pronoun and hierarchies in Lower Columbia Chin ú k Wawa

8. Three irregular verbs in Gullah

9. Afro-Bolivian Spanish

10. Copula patterns in Hawai'i Creole

Part III

11. On the properties of Papiamentu pa

12. No exception to the rule

13. A look at so in Mauritian Creole

14. Chinese Spanish in 19th-century Cuba

15. Comparative perspectives on the origins, development and structure of Amazonian (Karipúna) French Creole

Index

The series Creole Language Library.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152665

9781282152663

1282152661

9789027292018

9027292019

OCLC:

647673112