Phonology And Morphology Of Creole Languages

Author : Ingo Plag
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015052646422

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Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages by Ingo Plag Pdf

Contents: Christian Uffmann, Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked. - Albert Valdman/Iskra Iskrova, A new look at nazalization in Haitian Creole. - Emmanuel Nikiema/Parth Bhatt, Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole. - Sabine Lappe/Ingo Plag, Rules versus analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan. - Norval Smith, New evidence from the Past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize, that is the question. - Emmanuel Schang, Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense. - Anne-Marie Brousseau, The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values. - David Sutcliffe, African American English suprasegmentals: A study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States. - Winford James, The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian. - Shelome Gooden, Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication. - Thomas Klein, Syllable structure and lexical markedness in creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere. - Margot van den Berg, Early 18th century Sranan -man. - Patrick Steinkrüger, Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole). - Nicholas Faraclas, The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin and the notion of >simplicityTonjes Veenstra, What verbal morphology can tell us about creole genesis: the case of French-related creoles. - Marlyse Baptista, Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and creoles: a comparative study. - Alain Kihm, Inflectional categories in creole languages.

Author : Parth Bhatt,Tonjes Veenstra
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Parth Bhatt,Ingo Plag
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110891683

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The Structure of Creole Words by Parth Bhatt,Ingo Plag Pdf

This volume brings together articles that are focused on segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects of creole words, thus contributing to the ongoing debates about the nature of phonology and morphology and their role in emergence and development of these languages. The papers cover a wide range of creole languages with different lexifier languages and address empirical, typological, historical and theoretical issues, drawing our attention to hitherto unknown phenomena or offering interesting new analyses of established facts. With contributions from: Parth Bhatt, Alain Kihm, Thomas Klein, Emmanuel Nikiema, Ingo Plag, Marina Pucciarelli, Jean-Louis Rougé, Eric Russel-Webb, Shobha Satyanath, Emmanuel Schang, Mareile Schramm, Norval Smith, Marleen van de Vate and Tonjes Veenstra.

Author : Geneviève Escure,Armin Schwegler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295088

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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 : Geert Booij,Jaap van Marle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781402011504

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Yearbook of Morphology 2002 by Geert Booij,Jaap van Marle Pdf

The Yearbook of Morphology 2002 discusses the morphology of a variety of pidgin and Creole languages which appear to have much more morphology than traditionally assumed. Other topics include the morphological use of truncation for the coinage of proper names in Germanic and Romance languages, the way affixes are combined and ordered in complex words, and the complex linguistic principles behind these orderings.

Author : Claire Lefebvre
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027230805

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Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages by Claire Lefebvre Pdf

The content of this book is concerned with various issues at stake in Creole studies that are also of interest for general linguistics. These include the general issue of Creole genesis and of the accelerated linguistic change that characterizes the emergence of these languages as compared to ordinary cases of linguistic change, the problem of the development of morphology in incipient Creoles, the problem of the validity of data in linguistic analysis, the issue of multifunctionality as regards the concept of lexical entry, the question of whether Creole languages are semantically more transparent than languages not known as Creoles, the issue of whether Creole languages constitute a typologically identifiable class and the problem of the interaction between the processes involved in the emergence and development of Creole languages. The purpose of this book is to present the major debates that are currently taking place in the field of Creole studies; evaluate the arguments against data (mainly drawn from Haitian Creole); and address the issues at stake within the framework of new paradigms. The various positions on each issue are summarized on the basis of a thorough review of the literature.

Author : Thomas Gantner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656978657

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Development and Stages of Pidgins and Creoles towards Decreolization. A Phonological Analysis by Thomas Gantner Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Rostock (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Enriching English, language: English, abstract: First, I will briefly portray the emergence of pidgin and creole languages and their development towards the post-creole continuum. I will examine the different types of pidgin-creole developments and the phenomenon of decreolizing - the approximation of the creole towards the lexifier by using the example of the Hawaiian Creole that I will also portray out of a socio-historical point of view. That creole is officially still called ‘Hawai’i Pidgin’ by its speakers, but I will avoid using that term in my paper. Therefore, the term Hawai’i Creole English, short HCE, is more appropriate. Furthermore, I will deal with HCE’s phonology, especially with its difference to Standard English, in detail – due to the question whether HCE is decreolizing or not. As Norval S. H. Smith states, creole phonology is a “neglected field” and “younger languages” have the tendency to be not as much irregular as “elder language” tend to be.

Author : John McWhorter,Jeff Good
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110278262

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A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole by John McWhorter,Jeff Good Pdf

Saramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole languages. Being the most removed of all English-based creoles from European language structure in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax, it has been seen as one of the most extreme instantiations of the creolization process. This is the first full-length description of Saramaccan. The grammar documents, in particular, a valence-sensitive system of indicating movement and direction via serial verb constructions, hitherto overlooked amidst the generalized phenomenon of serialization itself.

Author : Henri Tinelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110824926

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Creole Phonology by Henri Tinelli Pdf

Author : Susanne Michaelis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289964

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Roots of Creole Structures by Susanne Michaelis Pdf

This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language structure including phonology, morphology, and syntax, providing a wealth of structural and sociohistorical data that any comprehensive theory of contact languages will have to account for. Each of the papers provides a thorough description of a structural phenomenon against the background of the sociohistorical contact situation. The languages covered in the book are: Guiné-Bissau Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawai‘i Creole, Indo-Portuguese creoles, Jamaican Creole, Lingua Franca, North American French, Mauritian Creole, Santomense, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sranan, Surinamese Maroon creoles, Vincentian Creole, and Zamboangueño Chavacano.

Author : Yolanda Rivera Castillo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004448834

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A Description of Papiamentu by Yolanda Rivera Castillo Pdf

This book constitutes a primary data-supported, comprehensive grammar of Papiamentu. It analyzes spontaneous speech data from two varieties spoken in Aruba and Curaçao. The author examines structural features so far unexplored in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and aspects of sentential semantics. Particular attention is given to nominal classifiers, non-pro-drop syntactic constructions, and absolute tense marking, traits that are rarely described in regards to Creole or Romance languages. Researchers interested in formal analyses of Papiamentu, Creole languages, and in language contact will find this book an indispensable tool.

Author : Jacques Arends,Pieter Muysken,Norval Smith
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252364

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Pidgins and Creoles by Jacques Arends,Pieter Muysken,Norval Smith Pdf

For review see: Geneviève Escure, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 72, no. 1 & 2 (1998); p. 192-194. - For abstract see: Caribbean Abstracts, no. 7, 1995-1996 (1997); p. 11, no. 0018.

Author : Norval Smith,Tonjes Veenstra
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252459

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Creolization and Contact by Norval Smith,Tonjes Veenstra Pdf

This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.” These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of second language learning for theories of pidgin/creole genesis; critically discuss the notions levelling (koine formation) and convergence; the relation between types of contact situations and processes of crosslinguistic influence; as well as the linguistic consequences of the social structure of the plantation system. In addition to discussing English-, French-, and Dutch-related creoles, the papers cover a wide range of contact languages spoken throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe. The breadth and coverage makes this an indispensable title for research in the field of contact linguistics.

Author : Enoch Oladé Aboh,Norval Smith,Anne Zribi-Hertz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Suzanne Romaine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315504957

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Pidgin and Creole Languages by Suzanne Romaine Pdf

This book defines and describes the linguistic features of these languages and considers the dynamic developments that bring them into being and lead to changes in their structure.