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Roots of Creole Structures
Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates
Editor
Susanne Maria Michaelis | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | Justus-Liebig University, Giessen
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.
[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 October 2008
Published online on 14 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
- List of standard abbreviations | pp. ix–9
- Preface | pp. xi–xvii
- 1. The problem of multiple substrates: The case of Jamaican CreoleSilvia Kouwenberg | pp. 1–27
- 2. The superstrate is not always the lexifier: Lingua Franca in the Barbary Coast 1530-1830Rachel Selbach | pp. 29–58
- 3. In praise of the cafeteria principle: Language mixing in Hawai'i CreoleJeff Siegel | pp. 59–82
- 4. Tense marking and inflectional morphology in Indo-Portuguese creolesAna R. Luís | pp. 83–121
- 5. Vowel epenthesis and creole syllable structureChristian Uffmann | pp. 123–152
- 6. The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan: Implications for sociohistoryNorval Smith | pp. 153–168
- 7. Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri: Problems of language contactSibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig and Fabiola Henri | pp. 169–196
- 8. On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creole's lexiconClaire Lefebvre | pp. 197–223
- 9. Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from?Susanne Maria Michaelis | pp. 225–251
- 10. A first step towards the analysis of tone in SantomensePhilippe Maurer | pp. 253–261
- 11. Balanta, Guiné-Bissau Creole Portuguese and Portuguese: A comparison of the noun phraseIncanha Intumbo | pp. 263–278
- 12. Zamboangueño Chavacano and the potentive modeCarl Rubino | pp. 279–299
- 13. Between contact and internal development: Towards a multi-layered explanation for the development of the TMA system in the creoles of SurinameBettina Migge and Laurence Goury | pp. 301–331
- 14. The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole: Morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic processesPaula Prescod | pp. 333–355
- 15. A la recherche du "superstrat": What North American French can and cannot tell us about the input to creolizationIngrid Neumann-Holzschuh | pp. 357–383
- Personal name index | pp. 385–389
- Language index | pp. 391–403
- Places and Peoples index | pp. 405–407
- Subject index | pp. 411–425
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