Belizean Creole. Gender, creole, and the role of women in language change

Escure, Geneviève

doi:10.1075/impact.9.07esc

In:Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 9] 2001
► pp. 53–84

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Belizean Creole. Gender, creole, and the role of women in language change

Geneviève Escure | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Published online: 9 October 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.9.07esc

1.Problems of definition 1.1 Gender and sex in society 1.2 Pidgins and creoles 2. Focus on Belize 2.1 Sociolinguistic background 2.2 English influence on Belizean Creole 2.3 Previous studies of gender in Belize 2.4 Gender in nominal reference and proverbs 3. Gender in Belizean conversation 3.1 Absence of referential gender-marking (generic pronouns) 3.2 Comparative distribution of pronouns in Belizean and other Central American Creoles 4. Gender and linguistic change 4.1 Linguistic change: The copula 4.2 Linguistic change: Past tense 5. Explanations 6. Conclusion Notes References

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