Pidgin Grammar

Pidgin Grammar
Title Pidgin Grammar PDF eBook
Author Kent Sakoda
Publisher Bess Press
Pages 132
Release 2003
Genre Creole dialects, English
ISBN 9781573061698

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Devoted to a serious description of Pidgin origins and grammar, this work on Pidgin grammar does not require knowledge of linguistics. This reference is useful for anyone wanting to know more about this unique language of the Hawaiian Islands.

Cameroon Pidgin English

Cameroon Pidgin English
Title Cameroon Pidgin English PDF eBook
Author Miriam Ayafor
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 338
Release 2017-12-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027266034

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Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral presence in Cameroon, and the linguistic examples illustrating this description are drawn from a spoken corpus consisting of a range of text types, including oral narratives, radio broadcasts and spontaneous conversation. The authors’ typologically-framed investigation of the features of the language, from its phonetics, phonology and lexicon to its syntax and discourse structure, allows the reader a clear view of the linguistic character of CPE, offering a comprehensive description of the language that will be of interest to creolists as well as linguists interested in African languages, contact linguistics and comparative linguistics.

The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles

The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Title The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles PDF eBook
Author Arthur K. Spears
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 471
Release 1997-10-06
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027275858

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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).

Toward a Reference Grammar of Tok Pisin

Toward a Reference Grammar of Tok Pisin
Title Toward a Reference Grammar of Tok Pisin PDF eBook
Author John W. M. Verhaar
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 500
Release 1995-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780824816728

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A Grammar of Cameroonian Pidgin

A Grammar of Cameroonian Pidgin
Title A Grammar of Cameroonian Pidgin PDF eBook
Author Nkemngong Nkengasong
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 175
Release 2016-01-14
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1443887544

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This volume represents a comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures. It comprises a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs and a rich glossary of over 1000 words and expressions typical of Cameroonian Pidgin which are helpful in understanding the characteristic features of the language, as well as the cultural, the social, and the philosophical contexts of the Cameroonian Pidgin speaker. Written with the first-hand experience of a “native speaker”, it will be of interest to ordinary users, as well as students, researchers and professional linguists interested in the way the language functions. Indeed, it represents a useful resource for anyone wishing to learn or know about Pidgin, especially tourists and professionals traveling to West and Central Africa.

The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures

The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
Title The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures PDF eBook
Author Susanne Maria Michaelis
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 572
Release 2013-09-05
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199691398

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The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed among the world's pidgins and creoles. Designed and written by the world's leading experts, it is a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.

A grammar of Pichi

A grammar of Pichi
Title A grammar of Pichi PDF eBook
Author Kofi Yakpo
Publisher Language Science Press
Pages 645
Release 2019
Genre Creole dialects, English
ISBN 3961101337

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Pichi is an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. It is an offshoot of 19th century Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with West African relatives like Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, and Ghanaian Pidgin English, as well as with the English-lexifier creoles of the insular and continental Caribbean. This comprehensive description presents a detailed analysis of the grammar and phonology of Pichi. It also includes a collection of texts and wordlists. Pichi features a nominative-accusative alignment, SVO word order, adjective-noun order, prenominal determiners, and prepositions. The language has a seven-vowel system and twenty-two consonant phonemes. Pichi has a two-tone system with tonal minimal pairs, morphological tone, and tonal processes. The morphological structure is largely isolating. Pichi has a rich system of tense-aspect-mood marking, an indicative-subjunctive opposition, and a complex copular system with several suppletive forms. Many features align Pichi with the Atlantic-Congo languages spoken in the West African littoral zone. At the same time, characteristics like the prenominal position of adjectives and determiners show a typological overlap with its lexifier English, while extensive contact with Spanish has left an imprint on the lexicon and grammar as well.