G. Tucker Childs

List of John Benjamins publications in which G. Tucker Childs is involved.

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An Introduction to African Languages

G. Tucker Childs

This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate… read more

[Not in series, 121] 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

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Childs, G. Tucker 2019 Chapter 12. Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism* Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives, Akita, Kimi and Prashant Pardeshi (eds.), pp. 303–322 | Chapter

The purpose of the pilot research described here was twofold. The first was to develop a measure for multilingualism, how to characterize what has come to be known in the literature as a linguistic repertoire in a rapid and economical manner. A linguistic repertoire is not a language but the… read more

Childs, G. Tucker 2018 Chapter 5. Forty-plus years before the mast: My experiences as a field linguist Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker (eds.), pp. 61–78 | Chapter

Childs, G. Tucker 2014 Constraints on violating constraints: How languages reconcile the twin dicta of “Be different” and “Be recognizably language” Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry, Lahti, Katherine, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster (eds.), pp. 341–354 | Article

This paper examines the contradictory demands of using language expressively and still qualifying as language, proposing a functional explanation for the form of words in a linguistic word category. Being expressive requires expending more energy, emitting a more robust signal to convey additional… read more

Childs, G. Tucker 2008 Review of Voeltz (2005): Studies in African Linguistic Typology Studies in Language 32:4, pp. 917–926 | Review

Childs, G. Tucker 2002 Review of Bartens (2000): Ideophones and Sound Symbolism in Atlantic Creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:2, pp. 284–289 | Review

Childs, G. Tucker 2001 Research on ideophones, whither hence? The need for a social theory of ideophones Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), pp. 63–73 | Article

Childs, G. Tucker 1997 The status of Isicamtho, an Nguni-based urban variety of Soweto 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. 341–372 | Article

Childs, G. Tucker 1994 Expressiveness in Contact Situations: The Fate of African Ideophones Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:2, pp. 257–282 | Article

Typically not the focus of linguistic analysis, the expressive function nonetheless represents a core linguistic behavior. Throughout Africa, ideo-phones robustly manifest that function. When adult speakers learn and begin to use a second language, particularly in contact situations with limited L2… read more