Language contact in Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas : in honor of John V. Singler / edited by Cecelia A. Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzic, Philipp S. Angermeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cutler, Cecelia A., editor.

Vrzić, Zvjezdana, editor.

Angermeyer, Philipp Sebastian, editor.

Singler, John Victor, honouree.

Series:

Creole language library ; 53.

Creole Language Library, 0920-9026 ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Languages.

African Americans.

English language--Social aspects--United States.

English language.

English language--Variation--United States.

Black people--United States--Languages.

Black people.

Black English.

Americanisms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis.

Contents:

Intro

Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

1. Organization of the volume

2. The sociohistorical matrix of creole genesis

3. The origin and the nature of pidgin and creole grammars

References

Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar: Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar

1. Introduction

2. Slavery on the Slave Coast: The Kingdom of Allada

3. Creole languages and language change

4. The recombination of syntactic features: The na-inni code

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Appendix: Conventions for interlinear glosses

The African diaspora in Latin America: Linguistic contact and consequences

2. The historical presence of creoles in Latin America

3. The contemporary situation: Vernacular varieties of Spanish and Portuguese

4. Phonological reductions

5. Morphosyntactic variation

6. The problem of explanation

7. The apparent dearth of creoles in contemporary Latin America

8. A crucial case: Afro-Bolivian Spanish

9. Conclusions

The sociohistorical matrix of creolization and the role children played in this process: The sociohistorical matrix of creolization and the role children played in this process

2. Early colonial Berbice

3. African continuities in Berbice Dutch: Lexical evidence

4. The sociohistorical matrix of creolization

5. The roles of adults and children in abrupt creolization

6. Conclusion

Creole as necessity? Creole as choice?: Evidence from Afrikaans historical sociolinguistics

1. Introduction: Learning more about language

2. Trudgill's challenge: Who needs identity?.

3. The trouble with the Afrikaans negation

4. Iconicity in language: Form and meaning

5. Ideological work: Shaping the voice of the Afrikaner boer

6. Ideological practice: Speaking like an Afrikaner boer

7. Conclusion: Language is - at least sometimes - choice

Bahamian Creole English: Yesterday, today and tomorrow

2. The Bahamian society

3. Sociolinguistic history of The Bahamas

4. Decreolisation and the (post)-creole continuum

Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora: Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora: Evidence from lesser-known varieties of English

2. The role of lesser-known varieties of English

3. Sites of lesser-known English varieties

4. The comparability of linguistic structures

Acknowledgments

Historical separations: Race, class and language in Barbados

2. Perspective on race and class in Barbados

3. The community

4. Sociolinguistic variation

5. The intersection of race and class in Barbados

6. Language ideology

7. Conclusion

Some observations on the sources of AAVE structure: Some observations on the sources of AAVE structure: Re-examining the creole connection

2. The debate on 19th century AAVE

3. The present tense paradigms of AAVE

4. The case for Gullah influence

5. Gullah-AAVE connections. Sociohistorical evidence

Unity in diversity: The homogeneity of the substrate and the grammar of space in the African and Caribbean English-lexifier creolesThe homogeneity of the substrate and the grammar of space in the African and Caribbean English-lexifier creolesThe homogenei

1. Introduction.

2. Towards a definition of strata: Substrate, adstrate, superstrate and lexifier

3. Typology of locative constructions

4. Locative constructions in Sranan and Pichi

5. Locative constructions in West and Central Africa

6. Stratal contact as a source of unity and diversity

7. Concluding remarks

Appendix: Conventions for interlinear glosses and abbreviations

2. The Jamaican Maroons

3. The two copulas of Atlantic English-lexifier creoles

4. Nominal copula construction types

5. Nominal copula constructions in the circum-Caribbean zone

6. Nominal copula constructions in the West African zone

7. Nominal copula constructions in the Eastern Jamaican Maroon Creole (EJMC)

8. Conclusions about construction types

9. Semantico-pragmatics

10. Syntactic and semantico-pragmatics relationships and restrictions

11. Conclusion on syntax versus semantico-pragmatics

12. Conclusion on the /na/ isogloss

Number marking in Jamaican Patwa

2. Variation in marking number

3. Dimensions of variation

4. The data

5. Constraints on number marking: Nominal reference and NP type

6. Semantic constraints

7. Phonological constraints

8. Envelope of variation: Exclusions

9. Analysis: -z versus zero

10. Discussion

11. Conclusion

Variationist creolistics, with a phonological focus: Variationist creolistics, with a phonological focus

2. Vowel laxing

3. h-deletion

4. t-deletion

5. The raising and backing of a

6. Monophthongization of [aɪ]

7. Summary and conclusion

References.

Pidginization versus second language acquisition: Pidginization versus second language acquisition: Insights from basilang and mesolang varieties of Zulu as a second languageInsights from basilang and mesolang varieties of Zulu as a second language

2. Salient features of Fanakalo pidgin

3. The Fanakalo and Zulu as a second language data sets

4. Mesolang ZSL, Zulu TL and Fanakalo: Similarities and differences

5. Differences between mesolang ZSL and Zulu TL

6. Stepping back: A brief comparison of basilang and mesolang ZSL and Fanakalo

Crosslinguistic effects in adjectivization strategies in Suriname, Ghana and Togo

2. Methodology

3. Property concepts in monolingual language use in the present and the past

4. Property concepts in multilingual language use

5. Comparing adjectivization strategies in Suriname, Ghana, Togo

Author index

Language index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

990183264