Norval Smith
List of John Benjamins publications in which Norval Smith is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0920-9026
Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of… read more[Contact Language Library, 57] 2020. ix, 400 pp.
Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
Jacques Arends
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little… read more
The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz
This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and… read more[Creole Language Library, 43] 2012. vii, 287 pp.
Complex Processes in New Languages
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith
In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating ‘complex’ structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction between supposedly more complex and less complex languages, how complexity relates to human knowledge of language, and the role of the… read more[Creole Language Library, 35] 2009. vii, 409 pp.
Substrate Influence in Creole Formation
Edited by Bettina Migge and Norval Smith
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:1 (2007) 200 pp.
Creolization and Contact
Edited by Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra
This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.” These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of… read more[Creole Language Library, 23] 2001. vi, 323 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction
Edited by Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion… read more[Creole Language Library, 15] 1994. xv, 409 pp.
Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985
Edited by Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly… read more[Creole Language Library, 1] 1986. vii, 311 pp.
2020 Pottefers Cant, Groenstraat Bargoens, and the development of “have” and “be” in the wider context of contact Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 283–338 | Chapter
Our article falls into two parts. In the first part we compare two “secret” or replacive Dutch languages, Potteferstaal (Pot-repairers language) and Groenstraat Bargoens (Groenstraat cant), which developed in and around eastern Belgium and the southeastern fringe of the Netherlands, respectively. read more
2020 Introduction. Pieter C. Muysken: A brief biography, a language contact bibliography and a Festschrift summary Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Chapter
2017 Krio as the Western Maroon Creole language of Jamaica, and the /na/ isogloss Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler, Cutler, Cecelia, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer (eds.), pp. 251–274 | Chapter
The nominal copula na appears uniquely in two sets of Atlantic English-lexifier creole languages: a) in what is called the Maroon Spirit Language used among the Eastern Maroons of Jamaica. Now confined to ritual use, it was formerly the daily language of the Eastern Maroons; b) in Krio, spoken in… read more
2012 The morphosyntax of non-iconic reduplications: A case study in Eastern Gbe and the Surinam creoles The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages, Aboh, Enoch O., Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz (eds.), pp. 27–76 | Article
In this paper, we have studied non-iconic reduplication in Eastern Gbe languages (viz., Fongbe and Gungbe) and Suriname creoles (viz., Sranan and Saramaccan). We have shown that in the Surinam Creoles, as well as in the Gbe languages, such non-iconic reduplication is conditioned by a unique… read more
2012 Reduplication beyond the word level: A cross-linguistic view The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages, Aboh, Enoch O., Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
2009 Simplicity, simplification, complexity and complexification: Where have the interfaces gone? Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article
2009 English-speaking in early Surinam? Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 305–326 | Article
I assess the opportunities of English-learning for slaves in early Surinam. Under the gradualist approach no creole could develop until the population balance had shifted significantly in favour of the slaves. With the population figures given by Arends for the years 1675, 1684 and 1695, I… read more
2009 Simplification of a complex part of grammar or not? What happened to KiKoongo nouns in Saramaccan? Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 51–73 | Article
In this article I attempt to approach the question of what effect the incorporation of a large number of KiKoongo vocabulary items by the creole languages of Surinam had vis-a-vis notions of simplification or complexification. So, we have the situation of a language lacking an extensive noun-class… read more
2008 6. The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan: Implications for sociohistory Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates, Michaelis, Susanne Maria (ed.), pp. 153–168 | Article
The aim of this article is to try and trace the source of a phonological change that applies only in the Portuguese-derived lexicon in Saramaccan. Saramaccan is a mainly English-lexifier maroon creole language with a very substantial Portuguese element in its vocabulary. This phonological change,… read more
2007 A dependency-based typology of nasalisation and voicing phenomena Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007, Los, Bettelou and Marjo van Koppen (eds.), pp. 36–48 | Article
2007 Introduction: Substrate influence in creole formation Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article
2007 The Unusual Outcome of a Level-Stress Situation: The Case of Wursten Frisian NOWELE Volume 52 (October 2007), pp. 31–66 | Article
2007 The Saramaccan implosives: Tools for linguistic archaeology? Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 101–122 | Article
This paper takes as its starting point the recently discovered fact that Saramaccan contrasts two types of voiced labial and coronal stop, plain and implosive. The plain labials appear to be modern in origin, something which cannot be said about their coronal counterparts. So we reconstruct an… read more
2006 A dependency account of the fortis–lenis contrast in Cama Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, Weijer, Jeroen van de and Bettelou Los (eds.), pp. 15–27 | Article
2006 Very rapid Creolization in the framework of the restricted motivation hypothesis L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 49–65 | Article
2001 2. Voodoo Chile: Differential substrate effects in Saramaccan and Haitian Creolization and Contact, Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 43–80 | Article
2001 Introduction Creolization and Contact, Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
1999 Review of Huttar & Huttar (1995): Ndyuka Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:2, pp. 390–398 | Review
1997 Shrinking and Hopping Vowels in Northern Cape York: Minimally Different Systems Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory, Hinskens, Frans, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 267–302 | Article
1994 18. Sranan Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 219–232 | Chapter
1994 25. Conclusions Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 319–330 | Chapter
1994 9. Theories focusing on the non-European input Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 99–109 | Chapter
1994 14. Saramaccan Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 165–178 | Chapter
1994 8. Theories focusing on the European input Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 87–98 | Chapter
1994 22. Reflexives Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 271–288 | Chapter
1994 1. The study of pidgin and creole languages Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 3–14 | Chapter
1994 26. An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 331–374 | Chapter
1986 Introduction: Problems in the Identification of Substratum Features. Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985, Muysken, Pieter and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
1983 In Memoriam: Jan Voorhoeve English World-Wide 4:2, pp. 265–267 | Miscellaneous