Creoles, their substrates, and language typology / edited by Claire Lefebvre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lefebvre, Claire.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 95.

Typological studies in language ; 95

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creole dialects.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (639 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The distinct social origin of creoles, along with pidgins and mixed languages, makes them a source of interest to typologists, given their interest in the cross-linguistic distribution of structural feature values. Typologists, like creolists before them, are interested in issues such as whether creoles have a distinct typological profile and how creoles have been shaped by the processes that led to their formation. However, typologists can also provide important tools to help creolists in answering these questions, in particular enabling them to see properties of creole languages against the general background of cross-linguistic variation in the world. This article examines a number of phenomena in creole languages from a typological perspective, in particular issues of simplification, substrate influence, and superstrate influence.

Contents:

Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

The problem of the typological classification of creoles

1. The problem

2. Aims and limitations of this chapter

3. Overview of the results

4. Creoles and language typology

5. Conclusion

References

Creoles spoken in Africa and in the Caribbean

Èdó influence on Santome

1. Introduction

2. Verb serialisation

3. Summary

4. Conclusions

List of abbreviations

A Wolof trace in the verbal system of the Portuguese Creole of Santiago Island (Cape Verde)

1 Santiago in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

2. Research on the contribution of African languages to the development of Santiago Creole

3. The trace of the Wolof 'situative' in the progressive of the Santiago Creole

Conclusions

Substrate influences in Kriyol

2. A historical and sociolinguistic sketch

3. Kriyol compared to its lexifiers and its substrate

4. Conclusion: Trying to answer one more question

One substrate, two creoles

2. Some background

3. Comparison of the vowel systems

4. Comparison of the consonant systems

Substrate features in the properties of verbs in three Atlantic creoles

2. body-state expressions

3. weather verbs

4. Object to subject raising verbs

5. The selectional properties of verbs meaning 'to want'

6. The selectional properties of verbs meaning 'to promise'

7. The selectional properties of verbs meaning 'to ask' or 'to request'

8. Double object verbs

9. Serial verbs

10. Conclusion

References.

Assessing the nature and role of substrate influence in the formation and development of the creoles of Suriname

2. Methodology and data for the study

3. Impact of substrate influence on TMA in the creoles of Suriname

4. Nature of substrate influence

5. The interaction between substrate influence and other sources

6. Conclusion

African substratal influence on the counterfactual in Belizean Creole

2. The sociolinguistic background

3. The counterfactual in Belize

4. African sources of the Belizean counterfactual

5. Garifuna reinforcement

6. Overview of African substrate influence

7. Conclusion

Substrate features in Nicaraguan, Providence and San Andrés Creole Englishes

2. Methodology

3. Substrate influence in the language structure of SA, PR and NK

Palenque(ro)

2. Origins of the Palenqueros: Language-external evidence

3. Origins of Palenqueros: Linking language-external evidence with language-internal clues

Creoles spoken in Asia

Convergence-to-substratum and the passives in Singapore English

2. The give and kena passives

3. The English passives

4. Excursion: Already and also

5. Concluding remarks

Tone in Singlish

1. Ecology and scholarship of Singlish

2. Tone in Singlish

3. Tone me55?

4. Tone from Sinitic?

5. Final reflections

The Cantonese substrate in China Coast Pidgin

0. Introduction

1. Contexts of formation

2. Previous scholarship

3. Grammar

Substrate influences in Mindanao Chabacano

1. Philippine Creole Spanish and MC

2. The origins of Mindanao Chabacano varieties: Endogenous or otherwise?

3. On the documentation of Zam

4. Philippine languages in contact with Zam - which and when?

5. Just what do we mean by a substrate?

6. "Substrate" Philippine features in Zam

7. Substratal features in segmental (and canonical) phonology

8. Copulas and negation, including the copula amo

9. Personal pronouns

10. Items of "local" lexicon in Cotabato Chabacano

11. Conclusions and a glimpse into the future

Abbreviations

Negation in Ternate Chabacano

2. The current situation and a historical overview

3. Negation in Ternate Chabacano

Aspect and directionality in Kupang Malay serial verb constructions

1. Sociolinguistic profile

2. Serial verbs in Kupang Malay (general)

3. The use of /ame/ and /buang/ in serial verb constructions

4. Parallels in surrounding languages

5. Summary

List of abbreviations (for Jacob-Grimes Kupang SVCs)

Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates

1. Background

2. Previous scholarship and methodology

3. SLM grammar

4. Genesis of SLM and the role of the adstrates

Dravidian features in the Sri Lankan Malay verb

2. The language

3. Morphosyntax

4. The primacy of Shonam

Creoles spoken in the Pacific

Papuan Malay of New Guinea

2. Verbal complexification: Inflectional morphology

3. More marking of aspect: Serial verb constructions

4. Serial verb constructions

5. Clause linkage

6. Other clausal restructuring

List of abbreviations.

References

The influence of Arandic languages on Central Australian Aboriginal English

2. The CAAE kin relation marker -gether

3. Associated Motion in CAAE and Kaytetye

4. CAAE prepositions and Kaytetye case

5. Summary and conclusions

Roper River Aboriginal language features in Australian Kriol

2. Pronouns

3. TMA

4. Case

5. Discussion

Substrate influences on New South Wales Pidgin

2. Transitive marking in Australian Pidgin

3. Adjective marking in Australian Pidgin

4. Summary and conclusions

Limits of the substrate

2. Stable, persistent and ubiquitous Oceanic constructions

3. The role of simplification

4. Discussion: Simplification and borrowing and the Papuan evidence

Substrate reinforcement and the retention of Pan-Pacific Pidgin features in modern contact varieties

2. The Pan-Pacific features

3. Substrate languages

4. The fate of the nine Pan-Pacific Pidgin features

The copula in Hawai'i Creole English and substrate reinforcement

2. Theoretical issues

3. The copula system in modern HCE

4. Historical development of the copula system

5. Substratal patterns for the creole copula

6. Discussion and conclusion

"On traduit la langue en français"

1. Sociohistorical background

2. Research into Tayo and the substrate

3. Tayo's TMA system

4. TMA features of the substrate languages

5. Comparing Tayo TMA features and the substrate

Conclusion

Conclusion.

Creoles and language typology

2. Simplification: Phonology

3. Substrate influence

4. Superstrate influence

5. Relative clauses

6. Conclusions

Index of authors

Index of languages and language families

Index of subjects

The series Typological Studies in Language.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613006615

9781283006613

1283006618

9789027287434

9027287430

OCLC:

707082770