Inheritance And Innovation In A Colonial Language

Author : William Jennings,Stefan Pfänder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319619521

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Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language by William Jennings,Stefan Pfänder Pdf

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages in contact. Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Author : Guy Bailey,Patricia Cukor-Avila,Juan Salinas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009099578

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Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English by Guy Bailey,Patricia Cukor-Avila,Juan Salinas Pdf

This Element uses data from the Springville Project to explore how the functions of the inherited forms invariant be (from English sources) and zero (from creolization) have transformed during the twentieth century. Originally just alternative present tense copula/auxiliary forms, both features developed into aspectual markers – invariant be to mark durativity/habituality and zero to mark nonstativity. The motivation for these innovations were both socio-cultural and linguistic. The Great Migration and its consequences provided a demographic and socio-cultural context within which linguistic innovations could develop and spread. The mismatch between form and function within the present tense copula/auxiliary system and the grammatical ambiguities that affected both invariant be and zero provided linguistic triggers for this reanalysis. When taken together, the evolution of these forms illustrates how restructured linguistic subsystems (and eventually new varieties) emerge out of the interplay between inheritance and innovation.

Author : William Jennings
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802076745

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Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation by William Jennings Pdf

Dibia was educated in Africa, stolen across the sea and sold into slavery. He spent the rest of his life on a sugar plantation, where he worked with Agoüya, drank Aboré’s rum, married Izabelle and had a son named Paul. This book tells the story of the community he lived in with a hundred others in a colonial outpost of the Caribbean. It depicts the everyday life of enslaved Africans and Native Americans in remarkable detail, showing their names, relationships, skills, health and interactions, as they contended with and resisted their enslavement. Most studies of plantation life examine well-established colonies in the century before abolition. This work provides a counterpoint by depicting the founding population of an African-American community in the early years of the industrial sugar plantation complex. Drawing on a planter’s manuscript, shipping records, missionary accounts and seventeenth-century scraps of paper, Dibia’s World will appeal to specialists as well as general readers interested in the early Atlantic world, Creole societies, slavery and African-American history.

Author : Danny Law
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270474

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Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference by Danny Law Pdf

This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the direct borrowing of inflectional morphology, including, in some of these languages, the direct borrowing of even entire morphological paradigms. The in-depth analysis of contact among the genetically related Lowland Mayan languages presented in this volume serves as a highly relevant case for theoretical, historical, contact, typological, socio- and anthropological linguistics. This linguistically complex situation involves serious engagement with issues of methods for distinguishing contact-induced similarity from inherited similarity, the role of social and ideological variables in conditioning the outcomes of language contact, cross-linguistic tendencies in language contact, as well as the effect that inherited similarity can have on the processes and outcomes of language contact.

Author : Ken Hyland,Lillian L C Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135051907

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Innovation and change in English language education by Ken Hyland,Lillian L C Wong Pdf

Questions about what to teach and how best to teach it are what drive professional practice in the English language classroom. Innovation and change in English language education addresses these key questions so that teachers are able to understand and manage change to organise teaching and learning more effectively. The book provides an accessible introduction to current theory and research in innovation and change in ELT and shows how these understandings have been applied to the practical concerns of the curriculum and the classroom. In specially commissioned chapters written by experts in the field, the volume sets out the key issues in innovation and change and shows how these relate to actual practice offers a guide to innovation and change in key areas grounded in research relates theory to practice through the use of illustrative case studies and examples brings together the very best scholarship in TESOL and language education from around the world This book will be of interest to upper undergraduate and graduate students in applied linguistics, language education and TESOL as well as pre-service and in-service teachers, teacher educators, researchers and administrators keen to create and manage teaching and learning more effectively.

Author : Edda L. Fields-Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253002969

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Deep Roots by Edda L. Fields-Black Pdf

Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora.

Author : Om Prakash,Rajesh Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000218008

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Linguistic Foundations of Identity by Om Prakash,Rajesh Kumar Pdf

The collection of chapters in this book brings together researchers working in paradoxes and complexities of cultural identities through uses of language and literature from varied perspectives. This volume is an important step towards achieving the goal of reaching out to many who have been looking at the complexities of identity formation from linguistic, cultural, social and political perspectives. Please note: This title is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka.

Author : Saloni Mathur
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478003380

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A Fragile Inheritance by Saloni Mathur Pdf

In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, difficulty, conflict, and contradiction. This book presents new understandings of the culture and politics of decolonization and the role of non-Western aesthetic avant-gardes within the discourses of contemporary art. Through skillful interpretation of Sundaram's and Kapur’s practices, Mathur demonstrates how received notions of mainstream art history may be investigated and subjected to creative redefinition. Her scholarly methodology offers an impassioned model of critical aesthetics and advances a radical understanding of art and politics in our time.

Author : Robert Mailhammer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110707946

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English on Croker Island by Robert Mailhammer Pdf

Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and language contact. These results have significant ramifications for how variation is modelled, for our understanding of how postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the dynamics of complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker Island into a typological context of World Englishes by establishing a profile according to the parameters of the World Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE). It is of interest to academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English, language contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages.

Author : Katie Kilroy-Marac
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520971691

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An Impossible Inheritance by Katie Kilroy-Marac Pdf

Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal during the 1960s and 1970s. Today’s clinic remains haunted by its past and Katie Kilroy-Marac brilliantly examines the complex forms of memory work undertaken by its affiliates over a sixty year period. Through stories such as that of the the ghost said to roam the clinic’s halls, the mysterious death of a young doctor sometimes attributed to witchcraft, and the spirit possession ceremonies that may have taken place in Fann’s courtyard, Kilroy-Marac argues that memory work is always an act of the imagination and a moral practice with unexpected temporal, affective, and political dimensions. By exploring how accounts about the Fann Psychiatric Clinic and its past speak to larger narratives of postcolonial and neoliberal transformation, An Impossible Inheritance examines the complex relationship between memory, history, and power within the institution and beyond.

Author : Ian G. Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199573776

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The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar by Ian G. Roberts Pdf

''This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as universal grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. It will be a vital reference for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.''--

Author : Alison Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134505869

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Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature by Alison Donnell Pdf

A historiography of Caribbean literary history and criticism, the author explores different critical approaches and textual peepholes to re-examine the way twentieth-century Caribbean literature in English may be read and understood.

Author : Yuncai Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811964305

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Landscape Pattern Language by Yuncai Wang Pdf

This book presents a landscape pattern language framework for describing landscape spaces and offers a new approach to landscape expression and spatial reasoning. In addition to describing a conceptual model of landscape pattern language and its inner logical connections, the book discusses the functionality of landscape pattern language from both local and universal perspectives—effectively demonstrating that it can be used to highlight the individuality and characteristics of landscape space shaping. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for all graduate students, lecturers, researchers, and practitioners in the areas of landscape architecture, landscape planning, and regional planning, especially ecological planning and design.

Author : Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1950 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134468485

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Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English by Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly Pdf

" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015079593441

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf