Substrate and Adstrate
Title | Substrate and Adstrate PDF eBook |
Author | Micah Corum |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2015-04-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1614514623 |
This volume provides a large-scale, in-depth analysis of locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to locatives in their lexifier, substrate, and adstrate languages. The work draws on new research methods for investigating substrate and adstrate influence in semantics and creole genesis.
Pidgins and Creoles
Title | Pidgins and Creoles PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Arends |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | 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.
Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology
Title | Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Parth Bhatt |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2013-12-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027271070 |
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).
The Influence of the Lexifier
Title | The Influence of the Lexifier PDF eBook |
Author | Debra Ziegeler |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2024-04-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110785250 |
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.
Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation
Title | Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation PDF eBook |
Author | Eric A. Anchimbe |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2013-12-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9400778813 |
Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume–while further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this level–incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interaction–e.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming and address forms, and gender–through innovative analytic frameworks that view indigenisation from emic perspectives. Focusing on postcolonial Cameroon and using natural and questionnaire data, the book assesses the salience of linguistic and sociocultural hybridisation triggered by colonialism and, recently, globalisation in interaction in and across languages and cultures. The authors illustrate how the multilingual nature of the society and individuals’ multilingual repertoires shape patterns in the indigenisation and evolution of the ex-colonial languages, English and French, and Pidgin English.
The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact
Title | The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact PDF eBook |
Author | Evangelia Adamou |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2020-07-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1351109146 |
The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 26 chapters, this handbook brings together a broad range of approaches to contact linguistics, including: experimental and observational approaches and formal theories; a focus on social and cognitive factors that impact the outcome of language contact situations and bilingual language processing; the emergence of new languages and speech varieties in contact situations, and contact linguistic phenomena in urban speech and linguistic landscapes. With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, the four sections of this text deal with methodological and theoretical approaches, the factors that condition and shape language contact, the impact of language contact on individuals, and language change, repertoires and formation. This handbook is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in language contact in particular regions of the world, including Anatolia, Eastern Polynesia, the Balkans, Asia, Melanesia, North America, and West Africa.
Roots of Creole Structures
Title | Roots of Creole Structures PDF eBook |
Author | Susanne Michaelis |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2008-10-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027289964 |
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.