Creole And Dialect Continua

Author : Geneviève Escure
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275868

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Creole and Dialect Continua by Geneviève Escure Pdf

Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies, the unguided acquisition of a standard by speakers of nonstandard varieties is examined in two distinct linguistic and geographical situations: in a Caribbean creole situation (Belize), with special attention to the acquisition of acrolects by native speakers of basilects, and in a noncreole situation (PRC), documenting the acquisition of standard Chinese (Putonghua) by speakers of nonstandard varieties represented in Cultural Revolution literature, Wuhan Chinese, and Suzhou Wu story-telling style. In both cases psychosocial factors, linguistic bias toward nonnative renderings of the standard varieties, the social status of their speakers, and related political and educational consequences play an important role in the development of second dialects. The broad-ranging analysis of a single feature of oral discourse leads to the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations in acquisition studies and results in an evaluation of the putative uniqueness of creole languages. Related issues addressed include the effect of linguistic bias on the development and use of language varieties by marginalized groups; the interaction of three major language components — semantics, syntax, and pragmatics — in spontaneous communication; and the development of methods to identify discourse units. The ultimate goal underlying the comparison of specific discourse variables in Belizean and Chinese standard acquisition is to evaluate the relative merits of substratal, superstratal, and universal explanations in language development.

Author : Lars Hinrichs,Joseph T. Farquharson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252593

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Variation in the Caribbean by Lars Hinrichs,Joseph T. Farquharson Pdf

The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole settings. This volume collects current work in the field and focuses on methodological and theoretical innovations that continue, expand, and update the dialog between Caribbean variation studies and general sociolinguistics.

Author : Geneviève Escure
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252401

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Creole and Dialect Continua by Geneviève Escure Pdf

Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies, the unguided acquisition of a standard by speakers of nonstandard varieties is examined in two distinct linguistic and geographical situations: in a Caribbean creole situation (Belize), with special attention to the acquisition of acrolects by native speakers of basilects, and in a noncreole situation (PRC), documenting the acquisition of standard Chinese (Putonghua) by speakers of nonstandard varieties represented in Cultural Revolution literature, Wuhan Chinese, and Suzhou Wu story-telling style. In both cases psychosocial factors, linguistic bias toward nonnative renderings of the standard varieties, the social status of their speakers, and related political and educational consequences play an important role in the development of second dialects. The broad-ranging analysis of a single feature of oral discourse leads to the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations in acquisition studies and results in an evaluation of the putative uniqueness of creole languages. Related issues addressed include the effect of linguistic bias on the development and use of language varieties by marginalized groups; the interaction of three major language components — semantics, syntax, and pragmatics — in spontaneous communication; and the development of methods to identify discourse units. The ultimate goal underlying the comparison of specific discourse variables in Belizean and Chinese standard acquisition is to evaluate the relative merits of substratal, superstratal, and universal explanations in language development.

Author : John R. Rickford
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804713774

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Dimensions of a Creole Continuum by John R. Rickford Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : John R. Rickford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039478818

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Standard and Non-standard Language Attitudes in a Creole Continuum by John R. Rickford Pdf

Author : Geneviève Escure,Armin Schwegler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252491

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Creoles, Contact, and Language Change by Geneviève Escure,Armin Schwegler Pdf

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. Some of the contributions make use of phonological analysis while others study language development from the point of view of acquisition. A few papers examine discourse strategies and style, or broader issues of social and ethnic identity. While this array of topics and perspectives is reflective of the diversity of the field, there is also much common ground in that all of the papers adduce solid data corpora to support their analyses. The range of languages analyzed spans the planet, as approximately twenty contact varieties are studied in this volume.

Author : Silvia Kouwenberg,John Victor Singler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444305999

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The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies by Silvia Kouwenberg,John Victor Singler Pdf

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

Author : Devyani Sharma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780197696415

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From Deficit to Dialect by Devyani Sharma Pdf

The emergence of new English dialects in postcolonial regions has transformed the politics of English in the world and language ecologies in many regions. Why, how, and when did these dialects develop? Why do they have the accents and grammars that we hear? Are the grammars of these dialects completely different due to the influence of local languages, or similar due to natural tendencies in human cognition? In terms of social identity, do these new speakers behave like native speakers of British or American English, or like language learners? Focusing on two prominent cases; English in India and in Singapore; this book examines the social, historical, and cognitive forces that together created and continue to shape these dialects. Differences in the linguistic ecology of the two regions help us to identify the strongest mechanisms of dialect formation under long-term cultural contact. The multi-scale analysis of a range of bilinguals moves beyond a simplistic divide between 'deficit' and 'dialect' views of these speech communities, showing that change proceeds unevenly across the language system and the social group, with feedback loops between social history, language learning, language structure, and identity.

Author : Arnold R. Highfield,Albert Valdman
Publisher : Karoma Publishers, Incorporated
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : UCSC:32106006669730

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Historicity and Variation in Creole Studies by Arnold R. Highfield,Albert Valdman Pdf

Author : Bettina Migge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252475

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Creole Formation as Language Contact by Bettina Migge Pdf

The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the morphosyntactic system of the creoles of Suriname. The study draws on a rich corpus of a) natural conversational and elicited synchronic linguistic data from the Eastern Maroon Creole (EMC) and its main African substrate language, Gbe, b) published diachronic data from the EMC s sister-language Sranan Tongo, and c) information on the early history of Suriname coming from socio-historical investigations. It suggests that mechanisms of deliberate and contact-induced change also involved in borrowing and particularly shift situations led to the initial formation of the creoles of Suriname while language-internal change played a role in their subsequent development.

Author : Glenn Alan Akers
Publisher : Karoma Publishers, Incorporated
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015001689333

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Phonological Variation in the Jamaican Continuum by Glenn Alan Akers Pdf

Author : John McWhorter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299482

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Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles by John McWhorter Pdf

This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a wide range of contact languages, ranging from English- and French-based creoles through Portuguese creoles of Africa and Asia, Sango, Popular Brazilian Portuguese, West African Pidgin Englishes, and Hawaiian Creole English.

Author : Marlyse Baptista,Jacqueline Guéron
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902725253X

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Noun Phrases in Creole Languages by Marlyse Baptista,Jacqueline Guéron Pdf

This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser Antillean, Haitian Creole, Mauritian Creole, Seychellois, Sranan, Jamaican Creole, Berbice Dutch Creole and African American English. Comparative studies also consider the determiner systems of Middle and Modern French, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Ewe, Fon and Gun. This compilation of 16 chapters brings together descriptive, theoretical, diachronic and synchronic studies that focus on the structure and interpretation of bare nouns in creoles. The contributions demonstrate the variety and complex nature of determiner systems in creoles and their widespread use of bare nouns in comparison to their source languages. This volume is evidence of the relevance of creole languages to theories of language creation, language change and linguistic theory in general.

Author : Claire Lefebvre
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287434

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Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology by Claire Lefebvre Pdf

Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a “definable typological class” (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class.

Author : Sidney Greenbaum
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110806656

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Acceptability in Language by Sidney Greenbaum Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.