The Influence Of The Lexifier

Author : Debra Ziegeler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110785258

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The Influence of the Lexifier by Debra Ziegeler Pdf

The study of language contact in the „new" English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate languages but much less often to functionally-based contact linguistic theory. In The Influence of the Lexifier, Ziegeler applies grammaticalization and other explanations of language change to many under-researched features of Singapore English, highlighting the role of the co-existing lexifier in the unique contact setting of Singapore.

Author : Debra Ziegeler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110785326

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The Influence of the Lexifier by Debra Ziegeler Pdf

The study of language contact in the „new" English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate languages but much less often to functionally-based contact linguistic theory. In The Influence of the Lexifier, Ziegeler applies grammaticalization and other explanations of language change to many under-researched features of Singapore English, highlighting the role of the co-existing lexifier in the unique contact setting of Singapore.

Author : Hugo C. Cardoso,Alan N. Baxter,Mário Pinharanda Nunes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273208

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Ibero-Asian Creoles by Hugo C. Cardoso,Alan N. Baxter,Mário Pinharanda Nunes Pdf

Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume, the first one dedicated to the Portuguese- and Spanish-lexified creoles of Asia, brings together comparative studies on various issues across the Ibero-Asian creoles and beyond, by specialists in these languages. This type of cross-linguistic analysis allows progress on many fronts, including the reconstruction of past stages of the languages, the explanation of observed similarities and differences, the identification and consolidation of typological/taxonomic clusters, or the assessment of the linguistic effects of different contact equations. The volume provides a timely window onto aspects of current research on the Ibero-Asian creoles, including unsettled debates and ways in which their study can contribute to advance several areas of linguistic enquiry.

Author : John W. M. Verhaar
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0824816722

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Toward a Reference Grammar of Tok Pisin by John W. M. Verhaar Pdf

Author : Zhiming Bao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107022089

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The Making of Vernacular Singapore English by Zhiming Bao Pdf

Charts the history of Singapore English and explores the linguistic, historical and social factors that have influenced the variety as it is spoken today. This study will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on language contact, world varieties of English, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.

Author : Silvia Kouwenberg,John Victor Singler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Peter Bakker,Finn Borchsenius,Carsten Levisen,Eeva M. Sippola
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Debra Ziegeler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514091

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Converging Grammars by Debra Ziegeler Pdf

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another. Case studies are illustrated in which the possibility of a 'merger'-construction is offered to resolve such problems. The book is intended for students of construction theories, variation studies, or any researcher of contact grammars

Author : Jeff Siegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199216666

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The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages by Jeff Siegel Pdf

This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple, at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies.

Author : Viveka Velupillai
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268846

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Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages by Viveka Velupillai Pdf

This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the sociohistorical settings, theories on the genesis of pidgins and creoles, as well as discussions on language variation and the sociology of language. Part II empirically tests assumptions made about the linguistic characteristics of pidgins and creoles by systematically comparing them with other natural languages in all linguistic domains. This is the first introduction that consistently applies the findings of the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures and systematically includes extended pidgins and mixed languages in the discussion of each linguistic feature. The book is designed for students of courses with a focus on pidgins, creoles and mixed languages, as well as typologically oriented courses on contact linguistics.

Author : John H. McWhorter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195347234

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Defining Creole by John H. McWhorter Pdf

A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages. The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue. Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as all human languages are, are delineable from older languages as the result of their having come into existence only a few centuries ago. Then adults learn a language under untutored conditions, they abbreviate its structure, focusing upon features vital to communication and shaving away most of the features useless to communication that bedevil those acquiring the language non-natively. When they utilize their rendition of the language consistently enough to create a brand-new one, this new creation naturally evinces evidence of its youth: specifically, a much lower degree of the random accretions typical in older languages, which only develop over vast periods of time. The articles constitute a case for this thesis based on both broad, cross-creole ranges of data and focused expositions referring to single creole languages. The book presents a general case for a theory of language contact and creolization in which not only transfer from source languages but also structural reduction plays a central role, based on facts whose marginality of address in creole studies has arisen from issues sociopolitical as well as scientific. For several decades the very definition of the term creole has been elusive even among creole specialists. This book attempts to forge a path beyond the inter- and intra-disciplinary misunderstandings and stalemates that have resulted from this, and to demonstrate the place that creoles might occupy in other linguistic subfields, including typology, language contact, and syntactic theory.

Author : Salikoko S. Mufwene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441175359

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Language Evolution by Salikoko S. Mufwene Pdf

Languages are constantly changing. New words are added to the English language every year, either borrowed or coined, and there is often railing against the 'decline' of the language by public figures. Some languages, such as French and Finnish, have academies to protect them against foreign imports. Yet languages are species-like constructs, which evolve naturally over time. Migration, imperialism, and globalization have blurred boundaries between many of them, producing new ones (such as creoles) and driving some to extinction. This book examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection. In a series of chapters, Salikoko Mufwene examines such themes as: - natural selection in language - the actuation question and the invisible hand that drives evolution - multilingualism and language contact - language birth and language death - the emergence of Creoles and Pidgins - the varying impacts of colonization and globalization on language vitality This comprehensive examination of the organic evolution of language will be essential reading for graduate and senior undergraduate students, and for researchers on the social dynamics of language variation and change, language vitality and death, and even the origins of linguistic diversity.

Author : Marinela Burada
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527526976

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Languages in Action by Marinela Burada Pdf

This book includes a selection of papers in linguistics presented at the 14th Conference on British and American Studies. Its tripartite structure reflects the main topics around which the nineteen contributions cluster. The first part, “Native language profiling: explorations and findings”, displays a variety of methodological approaches aimed at highlighting syntactic, morphological, and lexico-semantic aspects of, primarily, English and Romanian. The papers in the second section, “Aspects of language change, bilingualism, and cross-linguistic variation”, bring to the fore some of the topical issues falling within the ambit of language contact, such as mixed languages, bilingualism, and code-switching, as well as contrastive investigations of language structure. The research strand in the final part, “Meaning and communication within and across cultures”, relates to lexico-pragmatic inquiries into the construction of meaning, focusing on the “language beyond language”, as well as on the extent to which the lexical and pragmatic repertoires of various languages can be made to overlap.

Author : Rik van Gijn,Hanna Ruch,MAx Wahlström,Anja Hasse
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104208

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Language contact by Rik van Gijn,Hanna Ruch,MAx Wahlström,Anja Hasse Pdf

Contact linguistics is the overarching term for a highly diversified field with branches that connect to such widely divergent areas as historical linguistics, typology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and grammatical theory. Because of this diversification, there is a risk of fragmentation and lack of interaction between the different subbranches of contact linguistics. Nevertheless, the different approaches share the general goal of accounting for the results of interacting linguistic systems. This common goal opens up possibilities for active communication, cooperation, and coordination between the different branches of contact linguistics. This book, therefore, explores the extent to which contact linguistics can be viewed as a coherent field, and whether the advances achieved in a particular subfield can be translated to others. In this way our aim is to encourage a boundary-free discussion between different types of specialists of contact linguistics, and to stimulate cross-pollination between them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004460157

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When Creole and Spanish Collide by Anonim Pdf

When Creoles and Spanish Collide: Language and Culture in the Caribbean presents a contemporary look on how Creole English communities in Central America grapple with evolving Creole identity and representation, language contact with Spanish, language endangerment, discrimination, and linguistic creativity.