In:Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
[Constructional Approaches to Language 40] 2025
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Language contact and creolization
Motion event encoding in Guianese French Creole
Published online: 13 October 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.40.04wie
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.40.04wie
Abstract
Creole languages offer a fascinating insight into the (re)structuring of argument structure constructions
(hereafter ASCs) in language contact situations involving genetically unrelated languages. So far, however, research on ASCs
in creoles has been strongly biased towards the search for so-called African ‘substrate’ influence. In the present
contribution, I propose a more nuanced perspective that is consistent with findings from usage-based and/or constructionist
studies on motion encoding among bilingual speakers and in second language learning. These show the adoption or retention of
L2 lexical items and of (both lexically bound and more abstract) ASCs, but also fine-grained constructional differences in
comparison to monolingual speakers. Drawing on lexicographic sources and quantitative corpus data from oral folktales, I
provide a usage-based and cognitive-constructionist analysis of self-motion constructions in Guianese French Creole, which
emerged at the turn of the 17th to the 18th century from contact between French-speaking colonists and the (predominantly)
West-African slave population. My case study shows that verb-framed intransitive motion constructions with path verbs of
(Colonial) French origin are by far the most frequent and productive construction type, similar to French. Moreover, I find
more subtle ‘hybrid’ characteristics in Creole self-motion constructions (e.g. with regard to prepositional uses and
restrictions on specific lexical fillers) that can be related to contact-induced and/or convergence-driven developments
involving multiple source constructions. This is in sharp contrast to previous research suggesting that creole ASCs are
overwhelmingly of non-French origin and shows interesting parallels with research on typological tendencies and bilingual
speakers and learners.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Creolization and language contact
- 1.2Argument structure constructions in creoles and language contact
- 1.3A fresh perspective on creole ASCs: Major focus and research questions of the present contribution
- 2.Case study on motion event encoding in GFC
- 2.1Languages involved in the formation of GFC
- 2.1.1Colonial French
- 2.1.2West-African Gbe languages
- 2.2Data for Guianese French Creole and investigated motion constructions
- 2.3GFC motion expressions: Verbs, prefixes, adverbs, prepositions
- 2.3.1Motion verbs
- 2.3.2Prefixes
- 2.3.3Prepositions and adverbials
- 2.4Self-/Directed-motion construction types and their usage profile
- 2.4.1Single-verb self-motion constructions
- 2.4.1.1Intransitive self-motion constructions
- 2.4.1.2Transitive self-motion constructions
- 2.4.2Multi-verb constructions (MVCs)
- 2.4.2.1[alé/vini + V2]
- 2.4.2.2[kouri + V2]
- 2.4.1Single-verb self-motion constructions
- 2.1Languages involved in the formation of GFC
- 3.Summary of the results and outlook
Notes Abbreviations and glosses (following the Leipzig Glossing Rules) References
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