Umberto Ansaldo

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Umberto Ansaldo is involved.

Book series

Edited by Felicity Meakins and Viveka Velupillai

ISSN 2542-7059

Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Umberto Ansaldo

ISSN 0920-9026

Journals

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Edited by Bettina Migge

ISSN 0920-9034 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9870

General Editor: Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim

ISSN 2452-1949 | E‑ISSN 2452‑2147

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Edited by Umberto Ansaldo

This book shifts the focus of Pidgin and Creole Studies from the better-known Atlantic/Caribbean contexts to the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and Mongolia. By looking at Asian contexts before and after Western colonial expansion, we offer readers insights into language contact in historical… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 38] 2012. ix, 170 pp.

Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25:1 (2010) v, 199 pp.

Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau

Parts of Speech are a central aspect of linguistic theory and analysis. Though a long-established tradition in Western linguistics and philosophy has assumed the validity of Parts of Speech in the study of language, there are still many questions left unanswered. For example, should Parts of Speech… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 25] 2010. vi, 291 pp.

Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau

Special issue of Studies in Language 32:3 (2008) 246 pp.

Deconstructing Creole

Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim

Deconstructing Creole is a collection of studies aimed at critically assessing the idea of creole languages as a homogeneous structural type with shared and peculiar patterns of genesis. Following up on the critical discussion of notions of ‘creole exceptionalism’ as historical and ideological… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 73] 2007. xii, 292 pp.

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Lim, Lisa and Umberto Ansaldo 2021 Foundings and futures: How to live like a Peranakan in the post-digital ecology Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, Aboh, Enoch O. and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 243–267 | Chapter

This chapter contemplates the positioning of the Peranakans (also known as Straits-born Chinese or Babas) – descendants of southern Chinese seafaring traders to the Malay archipelago who married local women, and settled in the region – across different eras and ecologies. We provide a critical… read more

Szeto, Pui Yiu, Jackie Yan-ki Lai and Umberto Ansaldo 2019 Creole typology is analytic typology Language Ecology 3:1, pp. 89–119 | Article

This paper reviews a number of specific features typical of analytic languages, in an attempt to investigate whether Creole languages can indeed be grouped, at least structurally, with other languages of the analytic (or isolating) type. Based on Sybesma et al. (forthcoming), a study of the… read more

Ansaldo, Umberto 2016 Review of Leimgruber (2013): Singapore English. Structure, variation and usage. Studies in English Language Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:2, pp. 463–466 | Review

Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Geoff Smith 2012 China Coast Pidgin: Texts and contexts Pidgins and Creoles in Asia, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 59–90 | Article

In this paper we revisit some long-standing questions regarding the origins and structure of China Coast Pidgin (CCP), also known as Chinese Pidgin English. We first review the historical context of the China Trade which formed the ecology for the development of CCP. We then review the available… read more

Ansaldo, Umberto 2011 The Asian typology of English: Theoretical and methodological considerations The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.), pp. 11–26 | Chapter

Ansaldo, Umberto 2011 Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 367–382 | Article

Sri Lanka Malay is the vernacular language of the descendants of the Malay-Javanese diaspora of Sri Lanka. It is a restructured variety of Malay, which emerged from the prolonged contact between speakers of Malay varieties and speakers of Sinhala and Tamil varieties. The grammar shows a typological… read more

Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Geoff P. Smith 2011 The Cantonese substrate in China Coast Pidgin Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 289–301 | Article

The “Chinese” character of Chinese Pidgin English, or China Coast Pidgin (CCP) has been debated in previous work. While some Chinese-based features such as the use of piece(e) as a classifier are widely acknowledged, the extent of substrate influence has remained unclear. This paper surveys the… read more

Ansaldo, Umberto 2010 Foreword Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 1–3 | Article

Ansaldo, Umberto 2010 Review of Mesthrie (2008): Varieties of English Africa, South and Southeast Asia English World-Wide 31:1, pp. 99–102 | Review

Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau 2010 Parts-of-Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Article

Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Geoff Smith 2010 China Coast Pidgin: Texts and contexts Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 63–94 | Article

Ansaldo, Umberto 2009 Contact language formation in evolutionary terms Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 265–289 | Article

The aim of this paper is to present a view of contact language formation in which language creation in multilingual ecologies follows the same principles as language maintenance in monolingual ecologies, i.e. selection and replication of features available to speakers in a given environment. In… read more

Ansaldo, Umberto 2009 The Asian typology of English: Theoretical and methodological considerations The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.), pp. 133–148 | Article

This paper looks at the emergence of Asian English varieties in terms of the evolution of new grammatical features. I propose that, in order to reach a thorough understanding of how the unique combination of grammatical features that define specific Asian Englishes come about, we must approach… read more

Ansaldo, Umberto and Sebastian Nordhoff 2009 Complexity and the age of languages Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 345–363 | Article

This paper addresses the issue of complexity in language creation and the time it takes for ‘complex’ structures to emerge in the history of a language. The presence of morphological material is often equated to a certain degree of complexity or is taken to signify a certain time-depth in the… read more

Ansaldo, Umberto 2008 Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages, Harrison, K. David, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer (eds.), pp. 13–42 | Article

This paper presents a fresh take on the origins and nature of Sri Lanka Malay (SLM), based on fieldwork data collected in 2003–2005 in Kirinda, in the south-east of Sri Lanka. It departs from previous studies of SLM in that it is based on substantial recordings of spoken data in natural settings as… read more

Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau 2008 Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 505–508 | Article

Aboh, Enoch O. and Umberto Ansaldo 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

Ansaldo, Umberto 2007 Review of McWhorter (2005): Defining creole Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 170–176 | Review

Ansaldo, Umberto and Stephen Matthews 2007 Deconstructing creole: The rationale Deconstructing Creole, Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article

Ansaldo, Umberto, Lisa Lim and Salikoko S. Mufwene 2007 The sociolinguistic history of the Peranakans: What it tells us about 'creolization' Deconstructing Creole, Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 203–226 | Article