Enoch O. Aboh
List of John Benjamins publications in which Enoch O. Aboh is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714
Predication in African Languages
Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh
This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 235] 2024. xi, 344 pp.
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of… read more[Contact Language Library, 59] 2021. xiv, 330 pp.
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.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman
The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. This volume assembles a selection of the papers that were presented at the 27th edition of Going Romance, which was organized by the University of Amsterdam in… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 8] 2015. xi, 280 pp.
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.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer and Petra Sleeman
The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.This volume assembles a significant number of… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 1] 2009. xii, 288 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.
2024 Modelling multilingual ecologies beyond the L1-L2 Binary Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 37–42 | Commentary
2024 Chapter 5. Moving from verbs to prepositions in Gbe Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 128–151 | Chapter
Gbe languages have two classes of adpositions, namely prepositions and postpositions that have been argued to have developed from verbs and nouns, respectively. Focusing on the former, we highlight the functions of the forms across Gbe using examples from Eastern Gbe (e.g., Gungbe) and Western… read more
2024 Introduction Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
2024 Chapter 7. The eventive functional sequence: Take and give serial verb constructions in Gungbe Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 189–221 | Chapter
The Kwa languages (Niger-Congo) of West Africa are well-known for displaying Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs). The literature on SVCs contains various definitions of the phenomenon and recapitulates the general observation that these constructions express fine-grained information about a complex… read more
2021 Introduction: Ecology rolls the dice Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, Aboh, Enoch O. and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Chapter
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
2019 Our creolized tongues Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, Doron, Edit, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube (eds.), pp. 287–320 | Chapter
It is often assumed that creole languages represent ‘exceptional’ language development in which a contact language or a variety largely spoken by late L2 learners nativizes and becomes the main language of a community. It is therefore not uncommon that scholars of contact languages or revitalized… read more
2019 The opt out paradigm: First steps towards a new experimental method that measures meta-linguistic awareness Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 8:2, pp. 206–227 | Article
A common assumption is that children learn a language implicitly and without conscious awareness of form and grammar, but this assumption has virtually never been tested experimentally. We propose a novel experimental method to examine if children’s ability to acquire linguistic regularities… read more
2017 Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar 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. 23–48 | Chapter
John Singler’s work on substrate influence in the emergence of Atlantic creoles has shown that population factors (i.e., the ethnic distribution of the African founder population) as well as typological (dis)similarities between the languages in contact are crucial for understanding how new… read more
2016 Creole distinctiveness: A dead end Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:2, pp. 400–418 | Article
2015 Introduction Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013, Aboh, Enoch O., Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Article
2014 Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gùngbè: A transatlantic Sprachbund perspective The Sociolinguistics of Grammar, Åfarli, Tor A. and Brit Mæhlum (eds.), pp. 203–236 | Article
This paper discusses noun phrases in Haitian Creole (HC), a French-derived Creole, and in Gungbe, a Gbe language. These languages exhibit “bare noun phrases” (BNPs) in a wider range of positions than in French, English and the other most commonly studied Romance and Germanic languages. Studies on… read more
2013 Sluicing inside relatives: The case of Gungbe Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, Aalberse, Suzanne and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 102–118 | Article
This paper contributes to current advances in the cross-linguistic variation of syntactic contexts that allow sluicing. We investigate a relatively rare sluicing strategy: TP-ellipsis inside relative clauses. We analyse this phenomenon in Gungbe based on Van Craenenbroeck and Lipták’s (2006)… 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
2011 A Tribute to Norval Smith Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:2, pp. 235–246 | Article
2009 Competition and selection: That’s all! Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 317–344 | Article
This paper demonstrates that the notion of simplicity as often used in creole studies is completely irrelevant to the understanding of the structure, as well as the genesis, of creole languages. This is because creole languages are linguistic hybrids in the biological sense. They emerge from the… read more
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
2008 Tense, mood, and aspect in Gungbe (Kwa) Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 215–239 | Article
This paper is a first attempt at understanding the distribution of tense, mood, and aspect expressions in Gungbe, and the interaction thereof. The discussion shows that Gungbe INFL-related expressions are realized by functional items, which head distinct projections within I. These items may… read more
2007 A ‘mini’ relative clause analysis for reduplicated attributive adjectives Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007, Los, Bettelou and Marjo van Koppen (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
2007 The role of typology in language creation: A descriptive take Deconstructing Creole, Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 39–66 | Article
2006 The role of the syntax-semantics interface in language transfer L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 221–252 | Article
2004 Topic and focus within D Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Cornips, Leonie and Jenny Doetjes (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article