Malacca Creole Portuguese : Sociolinguistic History before the Twentieth Century / Alan Norman Baxter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baxter, Alan Norman, author.

Series:

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language ; 7

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creole dialects, Portuguese.

Creole dialects, Malay.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Sociolinguistic History before the Twentieth Century

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study addresses a longstanding gap in our knowledge of Malacca Creole Portuguese during the Portuguese, Dutch, and early British colonial periods, while opening new avenues for further research. Drawing on contemporary documents, published sources, and rare linguistic materials, it presents a coherent account of the emergence of the creole under Portuguese rule and its subsequent shaping and persistence during the Dutch and British periods. Historical sociolinguistic parallels between Batavia and Malacca allow a reconstruction of the creole’s form in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unpublished nineteenth-century documents further reveal the profile of the creole-speaking community in the 1880s and enable a comparative analysis of the language in 1883.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Maps, Figures, and Tabless

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1.1Backdrop

1.2An Essential Pre-Amble concerning Language Names

1.3About This Book

1.4Questions

1.5Framework

1.6Outline of the Book

1.7A Note on Spelling and Punctuation of Quotations and Linguistic Examples

2 Foundations—Diffusion of Portuguese in Multiethnic Melaka, 1511–1641

2.1The Portuguese Language in Melaka—First Contacts

2.2Linguistic Consequences of the Conquest

2.3What Types of Portuguese Provided Models for Use by Locals?

2.4Discussion

3 Continuity and Redirection—The Destiny of Portuguese under the Dutch

3.1Demographic Consequences of the Dutch Conquest

3.2The Portuguese Population in Later 17th Century Dutch Melaka

3.4The Lack of Direct Linguistic Evidence of Local Contact Portuguese

3.5Demography of the Portuguese Speech Community, 18th and 19th Centuries

3.6Discussion

4 Endurance—Malacca Creole Portuguese in the Early British Period

4.1British Observations

4.2Missionary Presence and the Use of Portuguese and Indo-Portuguese

4.3First Linguistic Notices of Malacca Creole Portuguese

4.41880s: Linguistic Documentation of Malacca Creole Portuguese

4.5Discussion

5 Aspects of the Grammar of 19th Century Malacca Creole Portuguese

5.1The Expression of Possession

5.2The Form of the Verb

5.3Verb Tense and Aspect Representation

5.4The Negation System

5.5Case-Marking: Direct and Indirect Objects

5.6The Status of Certain Connective Words

5.7Discussion

6 Epilogue

Appendix

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Baxter, Alan Norman Malacca Creole Portuguese

ISBN:

9789004764217

OCLC:

1600525119

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004764217 DOI