Creole Languages And Linguistic Typology

Author : Parth Bhatt,Tonjes Veenstra
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271075

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Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology by Parth Bhatt,Tonjes Veenstra Pdf

It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the linguistic properties of specific Creole languages to each other and also to non-Creole languages. Using a variety of methodological and analytical approaches, the contributions to this volume show that the linguistic classification of Creole languages continues to be a topic of intense debate that requires the re-examination of the premises of linguistic typology. What is the linguistic motivation for considering that languages are related or unrelated? How and why do common linguistic properties arise? Are Creoles indeed exceptional? This volume examines these questions and provides a strong foundation for continued research into the phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic features found in Creole languages. Most of these articles were previously published in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:1 (2011). The article by Jeff Good was previously published in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:1 (2012).

Author : Claire Lefebvre
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Arthur Kean Spears,Donald Winford
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252418

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The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles by Arthur Kean Spears,Donald Winford Pdf

Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole terminology and contact language typology (Section One); a requestioning of process and evolution in pidginization, creolization, and other language contact phenomena (Section Two); a reinterpretation of the sources and genesis of grammatical aspects of Saramaccan and Atlantic creoles in general (Section Three); a reconsideration of the status of languages defying received definitions of pidgins and creoles (Section Four); and analyses of aspects of grammar that shed light on the issue of what a possible creole grammar is (Section Five).

Author : Viveka Velupillai
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273505

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An Introduction to Linguistic Typology by Viveka Velupillai Pdf

This clear and accessible introduction to linguistic typology covers all linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. There is also a discussion on methodological issues in typology. This textbook is the first introduction that consistently applies the findings of the World Atlas of Language Structures, systematically includes pidgin and creole languages and devotes a section to sign languages in each chapter. All chapters contain numerous illustrative examples and specific feature maps. Keywords and exercises help review the main topics of each chapter. Appendices provide macro data for all the languages cited in the book as well as a list of web sites of typological interest. An extensive glossary gives at-a-glance definitions of the terms used in the book. This introduction is designed for students of courses with a focus on language diversity and typology, as well as typologically-oriented courses in morphology and syntax. The book will also serve as a guide for field linguists.

Author : Umberto Ansaldo,Stephen Matthews,Lisa Lim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229856

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Deconstructing Creole by Umberto Ansaldo,Stephen Matthews,Lisa Lim Pdf

Deconstructing Creole is a collection of studies aimed at critically assessing the idea of creole languages as a homogeneous structural type with shared and peculiar patterns of genesis. Following up on the critical discussion of notions of 'creole exceptionalism' as historical and ideological constructs, this volume tests the basic assumptions that underlie current attempts to present 'creole structure' as a special type, from typological as well as sociohistorical perspectives. The sum of the findings presented here suggests that careful empirical investigation of input varieties and contact environments can explain the structural output without recourse to an exceptional genesis scenario. Echoing calls to dissolve the notion of 'creolization' as a special diachronic process, this volume proposes that theoretically grounded approaches to the notions of simplicity, complexity, transmission, etc. do not warrant considering so-called 'creole' languages as a special synchronic type.

Author : Peter Bakker,Finn Borchsenius,Carsten Levisen,Eeva M. Sippola
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265739

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Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches by Peter Bakker,Finn Borchsenius,Carsten Levisen,Eeva M. Sippola Pdf

This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier languages. With evidence from creole languages in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific, the book provides new perspectives on creole typology, cross-creole comparisons, and creole semantics. The book offers an introduction for newcomers to the fields of creole studies and phylogenetic analysis. Using these methods to analyse a variety of linguistic features, both structural and semantic, the book then turns to explore old and new questions and problems in creole studies. Original case studies explore the differences and similarities between creoles, and propose solutions to the problems of how to classify creoles and how they formed and developed. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the unity and heterogeneity of creoles and the areal influences on their development. It also provides metalinguistic discussions of the “creole” concept from different perspectives. Finally, the book reflects critically on the findings and methods, and sets new agendas for future studies. Creole Studies has been written for a broad readership of scholars and students in the fields of contact linguistics, biolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language typology, and semantics.

Author : Ekaterina Bobyleva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Creol dialects
ISBN : 9460931081

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Development of the Nominal Domain in Creole Languages by Ekaterina Bobyleva Pdf

Author : V. Velupillai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230505858

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Hawai'i Creole English by V. Velupillai Pdf

Are there common specific patterns in the Tense-Mood-Aspect systems of Creoles? Do Creoles constitute a structural type of language? This in-depth synchronic description of the Tense-Mood-Aspect system of contemporary Hawai'i Creole English, is a language-internal analysis based on extensive first-hand data, both written and spoken. The language variety has been used as a basis for major linguistic hypotheses - a strength of this book is the use of a language-independent typological framework, placing the system in a cross-linguistic perspective.

Author : Alan S. Kaye,Mauro Tosco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : UOM:39015053180025

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Pidgin and Creole Languages by Alan S. Kaye,Mauro Tosco Pdf

Author : Silvia Kouwenberg
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781469130811

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The Future of Caribbean Linguistics by Silvia Kouwenberg Pdf

Professor Silvia Kouwenberg’s inaugural lecture of 17 March 2011, at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica.

Author : Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh,Edgar W. Schneider
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275455

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Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh,Edgar W. Schneider Pdf

Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different degrees of “radicalness” and intermediate language types (“semi-creoles”)? If so, by which linguistic structures are these characterized, and by which extralinguistic conditions have they been brought about? Which are the linguistic mechanisms underlying processes of restructuring, and how did grammaticalization and reanalysis shape the reorganization of linguistic, specifically morphosyntactic structures commonly called “creolization”? What is the role of language contact, language mixing, substrates and superstrates, or demographic factors in these processes? This volume provides select and revised papers from a 1998 colloquium at the University of Regensburg in which these questions were addressed. 19 contributions by renowned scholars discuss structural, sociohistorical and theoretical aspects, building upon case studies of both Romance-based and English-oriented creoles. This book marks a major step forward in our understanding of the nature of creolization.

Author : Jeff Good
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316425152

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The Linguistic Typology of Templates by Jeff Good Pdf

This book represents the first comprehensive examination of templatic constructions - namely, linguistic structures involving unexpected linear stipulation - in both morphology and syntax from a typological perspective. It provides a state-of-the-art overview of the previous literature, develops a new typology for categorizing templatic constructions across grammatical domains, and examines their cross-linguistic variation by employing cutting-edge computational methods. It will be of interest to descriptive linguists seeking to gain a better sense of the diversity of the world's templatic constructions, theoretical linguists developing restrictive models of possible templates, and typologists interested in the attested range of patterns of linear stipulation and the application of new kinds of multivariate methods to cross-linguistic data. The new typological framework is illustrated in detail via a number of case studies involving languages of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and numerous other templatic constructions are also considered over the course of the book.

Author : Matti Miestamo,Kaius Sinnemäki,Fred Karlsson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291356

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Language Complexity by Matti Miestamo,Kaius Sinnemäki,Fred Karlsson Pdf

Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 – is the first collection of articles devoted to the topic. The sixteen chapters of the volume approach the notion of language complexity from a variety of perspectives. The papers are divided into three thematic sections that reflect the central themes of the book: Typology and theory, Contact and change, Creoles and pidgins. The book is mainly intended for typologists, historical linguists, contact linguists and creolists, as well as all linguists interested in language complexity in general. As the first collective volume on a very topical theme, the book is expected to be of lasting interest to the linguistic community.

Author : Enoch Oladé Aboh,Norval Smith,Anne Zribi-Hertz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252661

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The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages by Enoch Oladé Aboh,Norval Smith,Anne Zribi-Hertz Pdf

This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and Breton alongside five chapters on creole languages (Surinam creole, Haitian, Mauritian, São Tomé and Pitchi), this volume brings counter-evidence to the claim that reiteration phenomena are particularly typical of creoles. And by exploring the syntax of reiteration alongside its morphology, the authors are led to challenge the 'iconic' theory of 'reduplication' proposed in several other studies of similar phenomena. This volume will be relevant for creole studies, but also for readers more generally interested in language universals and the architecture of grammars.

Author : Norval Smith,Tonjes Veenstra,Enoch Oladé Aboh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260734

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Advances in Contact Linguistics by Norval Smith,Tonjes Veenstra,Enoch Oladé Aboh Pdf

Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-breaking and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as numerous other scholars working on the various facets of this rapidly expanding field.