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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Creole dialects
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Urban Bahamian Creole
Stephanie Hackert
Author : Stephanie Hackert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027248923
This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines its current status and functions vis-à-vis the standard in politics, the media, and education. The linguistic chapters combine typological and variationist methods to describe exhaustively a comprehensive grammatical subsystem, past temporal reference, offering a discourse-based approach to such controversial categories as the preverbal past marker. The quantitative analysis of variable past inflection, finally, tests not only well-known constraints, such as stativity or social class, but also ethnographically determined ones, such as narrative type. Its results are relevant not only to the study of Caribbean English-lexifier creoles and related varieties, such as African American English, but also to variation and change in urban dialects generally.
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Arthur Kean Spears
Author : Arthur Kean Spears
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252416
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).
The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Umberto Ansaldo
Author : Umberto Ansaldo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1000221482
The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages offers a state-of-the-art collection of original contributions in the area of Pidgin and Creole studies. Providing unique and equal coverage of nearly all parts of the world where such languages are found, as well as situating each area within a rich socio-historical context, this book presents fresh and diverse interdisciplinary perspectives from leading voices in the field. Divided into three sections, its analysis covers: Space and place – areal perspective on pidgin and creole languages Usage, function and power – sociolinguistic and artistic perspectives on pidgins and creoles, creoles as sociocultural phenomena Framing of the study of pidgin and creole languages – history of the field, interdisciplinary connections Demonstrating how fundamentally human and natural these communication systems are, how rich in expressive power and sophisticated in their complexity, The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.
Pidgins and Creoles
Jacques Arends
Author : Jacques Arends
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902725236X
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.
An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
John Holm
Author : John Holm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521585811
A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Arthur K. Spears
Author : Arthur K. Spears
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 1997-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027275858
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).
Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages
Viveka Velupillai
Author : Viveka Velupillai
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027268843
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.
Pidgins and Creoles
Professor Loreto Todd
Author : Professor Loreto Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1134939302
`A marvellous feat of culling major issues and synthesising complex arguments.'- Journal of Linguistics `This slender but meaty volume is a good, solid and current introduction.'-Language in Society
Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey
John A. Holm
Author : John A. Holm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521359405
An overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.