In:Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler
Edited by Cecelia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer
[Creole Language Library 53] 2017
► pp. 367–369
Subject index
A
- A
- abrupt creolization 92–94
- accommodation 8–9, 16, 103, 105, 145, 155, 159–160, 167–170
- acrolect
114, 117–118, 124, 136–139, 146, 166, 288, 299, 306–307, 309, 328
- acrolectal varieties 109, 137
- adjectives 57, 65, 72, 83, 329, 339, 347, 351–353, 357
- adpositions 12, 25–26, 32–33, 35, 38, 41–44
- adstrate
6,12, 84, 93–94, 225–231, 238–239, 243, 245–246
- adstratal influence 93–94, 228
- agency 7–9, 18, 101, 104–105, 113, 118–119, 160, 170, 177, 192, 196, 321
- agglutination 333, 337, 339
- agreement
12–13, 52, 54–59, 61–62, 65, 70–72, 208, 301, 329, 331–334, 337–339, 352–353
- gender 72, 105, 329
- non-agreement 59, 61, 70
- noun class (marking) 13, 328, 330, 352–353
- number 12–13, 49, 54, 56, 58, 70
- subject-verb 58–59, 71–72
- variable 55, 62, 70
- see also concord
- Allada, Kingdom of 3, 25–31, 29, 45
- Arawak 4, 81–82, 89–91, 94–95, 127
- Atlantic slave trade 1, 49, 75, 81, 98, 347
- B
- Bahamas 3–5, 123–142, 147, 150–152, 158, 162, 170
- basilect
109, 136–137, 139, 142, 166, 300, 306, 328
- basilectal varieties 124, 146, 278
- Benin 3, 25–26, 31, 238–239, 242
- Brazil 3–4, 7, 28, 49, 51–56, 59–61, 64–70 71, 137, 190, 226, 231
- C
- children 4, 7, 9, 24, 32–33, 64, 69, 79–96, 107–108, 182–183, 327
- coda consonants 54–55, 64, 70, 189
- code-switching 14, 16, 24, 276, 288, 291, 300–301, 343–344, 346
- concord 105, 108–110, 114–118, 323–324, 327–335, 337–339, 352
- negative see negative concord conservative Creoles 124
- consonant cluster reduction 16, 148, 156–157, 160
- consonant lenition 55, 60, 64
- convergence 12, 70, 103, 117, 147, 157, 183, 233, 244–245
- communicative necessity 8, 74, 94, 101–102, 119, 194
- copula
33, 84, 138, 158–160, 166–169, 183–190, 205, 210, 213, 251–270, 307, 316–318, 327, 336–340, 349–353, 357, 359
- absence 158–160, 167, 169, 183–188, 205, 213
- existential 336
- locative 138, 307, 336–339
- nominal 251, 254–258, 261, 263–264, 270
- verbal 254–256
- Creole continuum 67, 137, 217, 226, 276, 291, 300, 314
- crop 80–81, 91, 150, 216
- D
- decreolization 3, 5, 50, 66–68, 96, 359
- deletion
55, 158, 183, 185–186, 205, 307–318
- d- 156
- h- 307–308, 312–314
- l- 311
- r- 55–56, 62, 72
- s- 55, 62, 72
- t- 307–308, 314–318
- denasalization 56
- diffusion 3, 5–7, 14, 25, 114, 117–118, 145–148, 155, 157, 160–161, 214–215, 218–220
- divergence 9, 24, 68, 71, 103, 117–118, 147, 150, 160, 169, 183, 193
- Dutch West India Company (WIC) 80–81
- E
- elicitation 205, 346
- emphasis 108, 113–114, 278, 327, 333
- enregisterment 111
- epenthesis 54, 316
- erasure 193
- ethnolect 146
- ex-slave narratives 205–206, 209–210, 212, 217, 219
- exceptionalism 10, 31, 39, 123, 147
- F
- first language acquisition
- see language acquisition foreigner talk 326
- Founder Principle 30, 160, 181
- future tense 56, 140, 205, 334–335, 339
- G
- gradual creolization 93, 345
- grammaticalization 36, 84–85, 88, 278, 351
- H
- Hyde County, North Carolina 16, 148–150, 153, 156–163, 166–170
- I
- iconicity 107–109, 112–114, 118, 193
- iconization 109–110, 193
- identity 7–9, 89, 96, 102–103, 107, 111, 118, 137, 139, 146, 151, 153, 160, 168–170, 180, 190–193, 321, 358
- ideology see language ideology I-language 24–25, 33, 39, 45
- imperative 56
- imposition 60, 63, 65
- indentured servants 9, 128, 133, 179–182, 216, 326
- indigenous Americans
- see Arawak
- innovation 13, 36, 39, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66, 74, 92–94, 96, 148, 205, 336, 344
- interlanguage 13, 33, 92, 323–325, 328, 338
- J
- Jamaica 6, 66, 68, 124, 128–129, 251–270
- L
- language acquisition
23–25, 31, 39, 41, 45, 66, 70, 87, 108, 327, 344
- first language acquisition (L1) 4, 24, 39, 80, 92, 108, 327–329, 331
- second language acquisition (SLA, L2) 13, 24, 63, 65–68, 74, 84, 90, 92, 213, 278, 323–340
- language evolution 25
- language ideology 9, 16, 177, 180, 192, 194
- lenition see consonant lenition
- lexicon 54, 82–84, 88–89, 91, 108, 277
- locative constructions 35, 43–44, 86–88, 225–246, 254, 263–264, 328, 346
- Loyalists 4, 130–131, 140–141, 150–151
- M
- markedness 11–12, 62, 107, 136, 184, 189, 328
- maroons 51, 82–83, 251–253, 261, 270
- mesolect 124, 135–139, 166, 177, 190, 213, 276–278, 288, 295, 298–301, 309, 328
- morphology 38, 56, 67, 80, 84, 95, 189–190, 276, 278, 306–308, 331, 338–340
- N
- nativization 4, 92–95, 345–346, 358
- negation 64, 84, 105–109, 325
- negative concord 105–106, 110, 114–118
- negative repetition 52, 56, 59–62, 64, 105–106, 108
- nominal copula see copula Nova Scotia, African American
- diaspora in 5–6, 205, 252–253
- number marking 15–16, 52, 59, 65, 72, 275–301, 329–330
- P
- past tense marking 139, 157, 184, 187–189, 214, 281, 334–337
- phonology 54–56, 64, 112, 160–166, 286, 305–321
- pidginization 32, 61, 295, 323–326, 337–340
- plantation 5–8, 31–32, 80–83, 88–91, 130–131, 149–150, 154, 179, 216, 325, 347
- plural marking 15–16, 52, 57–59, 62, 64–65, 72, 136, 138, 275–301
- post-Creole continuum
- see Creole continuum postposition 85, 87–88, 229–233
- predicates 36, 213, 254
- prepositions 32, 85–86, 229–245, 263–264, 326
- pronouns
66, 83–84, 116, 208, 305–314, 327–329, 332
- appositional 327
- bound 332, 338
- demonstrative 268, 284, 319, 326
- object 306–307, 319
- possessive 306–307, 332
- relative 208, 268
- resumptive 345
- subject 54, 66, 72–73, 138, 268, 285, 338
- property items 349–359
- R
- race 53, 60, 69, 110, 130, 141, 154, 177–183, 190–194, 358
- social construction of 53, 69
- recipient language agentivity 62
- reduplication 56, 108–109, 113, 351
- relexification 33, 35, 86–88
- repetition
59, 108, 115, 118
- negative repetition
- see negation
- S
- s- lenition
- see consonant lenition saliency 58–62, 65, 72, 327, 336
- Samaná, African American diaspora in 5–7, 207–209, 212, 220
- second language acquisition
- see language acquisition segregation 7, 63, 69, 94, 101, 134
- slavery 2–8, 26–31, 51–53, 65–70, 81, 126–133, 149–154, 178–180, 215–219, 358
- social class 4, 70–71, 134–137, 177–183, 190–192, 309–312, 319–320
- sound symbolism 108
- source language agentivity 63
- South Africa 111, 323, 325–326, 328
- standardization 68, 71–73, 105, 115
- style variation see variation subject pronouns see pronouns subject-verb agreement
- see agreement
- subjunctive (loss of) 56, 336
- substrate
11–14, 25, 64, 79, 82–89, 92–96, 124, 129–130, 146, 156, 227–228, 234, 238–239, 245–246, 328, 345
- homogeneity of the substrate 3, 11–12, 70, 225–226, 246
- substrate influence 11–13, 25, 35, 82, 86, 88, 106–107, 114, 156, 230, 238, 285, 295, 340
- substrate properties, reinterpretation of 87, 95
- Suriname 25–26, 32, 38, 45, 228, 263, 346, 357–359
- syntactic features
24, 33, 35, 38–40, 45, 87–88, 109, 185, 205, 256
- recombination of 38–45, 87
- T
- tense/aspect marking 84, 124, 139–140, 157, 183, 188–190, 211–212, 214, 219–220, 254, 276, 281, 286, 328, 334–338, 351
- transfer 63, 84–88, 92–94, 104, 156, 213, 231, 243, 325, 352, 357
- V
- variation
15–16, 55–60, 136, 147–148, 156, 166–167, 185, 210, 232, 253, 275–301, 305–321, 357
- cross-linguistic 36, 44
- intragroup 161–162
- morphological/ morphosyntactic 55–60, 275–301, 306–307
- phonetic/phonological 102, 253, 305–321
- sociolinguistic 170, 183–190, 193, 307
- stylistic 102, 123, 139
- verbal -s 140, 203–214
- verbal copula see copula verbal inflection 59, 65, 72, 113–114
- verbs
55–56, 59, 83, 85, 188–190, 291, 325, 332, 349
- serial verbs 124, 229, 234, 237
- vowel laxing 305, 308–312
- vowel systems 160–169, 253
- W
- White speakers 4, 9, 16, 107, 111, 155–170, 179–193, 203, 211
