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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788419003321

Titolo

The structure of Creole words [[electronic resource] ] : segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects / / edited by Parth Bhatt and Ingo Plag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tübingen, : Niemeyer, 2006

ISBN

3-11-089168-9

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 241 p. : ill

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 505

Classificazione

18.96

Altri autori (Persone)

BhattParth <1955->

PlagIngo

Soggetti

Creole dialects - Morphology

Languages, Mixed

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Collection of papers originally presented at the "Second International Workshop on the Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages" held at the University of Siegen, October 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1: Segmental aspects -- Creole phonology typology: Phoneme inventory size, vowel quality distinctions and stop consonant series / Klein, Thomas Β. -- The origin of the liquid consonant in Saotomense Creole / Rougé, Jean-Louis / Schang, Emmanuel -- Toward a phonology of obstruent voicing in Negerhollands / Webb, Eric Russell -- Population movements, colonial control and vowel systems / Smith, Norval / van de Vate, Marleen -- Section 2: Syllabic aspects -- Empty positions in Haitian Creole syllable structure / Bhatt, Parth / Nikiema, Emmanuel -- The phonological origin of language: Creole languages as a testing ground / Kihm, Alain -- Early Creole syllable structure: A cross-linguistic survey of the earliest attested varieties of Saramaccan, Sranan, St. Kitts and Jamaican / Plag, Ingo / Schramm, Mareile -- Section 3: Morphological aspects -- Logophoricity in Nigerian Pidgin English: An empirical study of variable third person singular subject marking / Pucciarelli, Marina -- English in the New World: continuity and change, the case of personal pronouns in Guyanese English / Satyanath, Shobha -- Head ordering in synthetic compounding: Acquisition processes and Creole genesis / Veenstra, Tonjes -- On the



presence versus absence of morphological marking in four Romance-based Creoles / Arends, Jacques / Verhagen, Josje / Lier, Eva van / Dikker, Suzanne / Cardoso, Hugo

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together articles that are focused on segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects of creole words, thus contributing to the ongoing debates about the nature of phonology and morphology and their role in emergence and development of these languages. The papers cover a wide range of creole languages with different lexifier languages and address empirical, typological, historical and theoretical issues, drawing our attention to hitherto unknown phenomena or offering interesting new analyses of established facts. With contributions from: Parth Bhatt, Alain Kihm, Thomas Klein, Emmanuel Nikiema, Ingo Plag, Marina Pucciarelli, Jean-Louis Rougé, Eric Russel-Webb, Shobha Satyanath, Emmanuel Schang, Mareile Schramm, Norval Smith, Marleen van de Vate and Tonjes Veenstra.