Language Change And Language Contact In Pidgins And Creoles
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| Author | : John H. McWhorter |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027252432 |
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a wide range of contact languages, ranging from English- and French-based creoles through Portuguese creoles of Africa and Asia, Sango, Popular Brazilian Portuguese, West African Pidgin Englishes, and Hawaiian Creole English.
| Author | : Geneviève Escure |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2004-10-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027295085 |
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 | : John Holm |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521585811 |
A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
| Author | : Mark Sebba |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 1997-05-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1349255874 |
Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles aims to introduce the reader to the exciting and important field of pidgin and creole studies. The book deals with the linguistic, historical and social aspects of the development of pidgin and creole languages. Detailed case studies of individual pidgins and creoles are based around texts drawn from a range of different types and contexts (mainly contemporary), with discussion and grammatical notes. Chapters are interspersed with exercises to consolidate and develop the reader's understanding.
| Author | : Peter K. Austin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 581 |
| Release | : 2011-03-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 113950083X |
It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language endangerment, language shift and language death, but to anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the world. It is accessible both to specialists and non-specialists: researchers will find cutting-edge contributions from acknowledged experts in their fields, while students, activists and other interested readers will find a wealth of readable yet thorough and up-to-date information.
| Author | : Nicholas G. Faraclas |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2021-05-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1000386333 |
This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages’ formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins and creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses—and scholars across many disciplines—will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.
| Author | : Silvia Kouwenberg |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 704 |
| Release | : 2009-02-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1444305999 |
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 | : Florian Coulmas |
| Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 1998-09-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780631211938 |
In 28 newly- commissioned chapters, distinguished contributors provide an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics.
| Author | : Albert Valdman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Creole dialects |
| ISBN | : 9780783787336 |
| Author | : Emanuel J. Drechsel |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2014-03-27 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1107015103 |
This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for historical-sociolinguistic research in Oceania by a combination of philology and ethnohistory, but also gives greater recognition to Pacific Islanders in early contact between cultures. Students and researchers working on language contact, language typology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics will want to read this book. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.
