Emanuel J. Drechsel

List of John Benjamins publications in which Emanuel J. Drechsel is involved.

Drechsel, Emanuel J. 2019 In memory of Derek Bickerton (1926–2018) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34:2, pp. 185–194 | Obituary

Drechsel, Emanuel J. 2014 Ethnohistory of speaking: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin in a trilogy 
of historical-sociolinguistic attestations Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters, Buchstaller, Isabelle, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily (eds.), pp. 7–40 | Article

Because most non-European pidgins-creoles have not survived into modern times, their study requires alternative, complementary historical analyses under the heading of the ethnohistory of speaking: philology (or the systematic reconstitution of early attestations by triangulation with… read more

Drechsel, Emanuel J. 2007 Sociolinguistic-ethnohistorical observations on Maritime Polynesian Pidgin in Herman Melville’s two major semi-autobiographical novels of the Pacific Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:2, pp. 231–262 | Article

Notwithstanding limited micro-sociolinguistic information on who spoke what, how, when, where, and in what other relevant circumstances, Melville’s two major semi-autobiographical novels of the Pacific, Typee and Omoo, invite an analysis in terms of an ethnohistory of speaking, i.e. the… read more

Drechsel, Emanuel J. 2000 Some fallacies of comparative Americanist linguistics in understanding Mobilian Jargon: A critique of Grant’s review Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:2, pp. 351–353 | Miscellaneous

Drechsel, Emanuel J. 1999 Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Evidence for a Maritime Polynesian Jargon or Pidgin Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 71–96 | Article