William J. Samarin
List of John Benjamins publications in which William J. Samarin is involved.
2009 Review of Lang (2008): Making Wawa: The genesis of Chinook Jargon Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:2, pp. 388–392 | Review
2007 The dynamics of Sango language spread. By Mark Karan Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:2, pp. 347–366 | Miscellaneous
2001 Testing hypotheses about African ideophones Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), pp. 321–337 | Article
2001 The past and present in marking futurity in Sango Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 16:1, pp. 53–106 | Article
2000 The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles, McWhorter, John H. (ed.), pp. 301–334 | Article
1998 C'est passionnant d'être passionné First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences, Koerner, E.F.K. † (ed.), pp. 187–226 | Article
1997 The creolization of pidgin morphophonology The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 175–218 | Article
1986 The Source of Sango's 'BE' Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1:2, pp. 205–223 | Article
The verb 'be' in Pidgin Sango is an innovation, for vernacular Sango has no copula. The development in Sango had important grammatical consequences. It is argued, with data both from Ngbandi and Kituba, that the most likely source of this verb is some form of Kikongo, which went through the… read more
1979 3. Simplification, pidginization and language change Readings in Creole Studies, Hancock, Ian F. (ed.), pp. 55–68 | Chapter