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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788951803321

Titolo

Phonology and morphology of Creole languages / / editor, Ingo Plag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tübingen : , : Niemeyer, , 2003

ISBN

3-11-092956-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2014]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 376 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 478

Classificazione

EE 1650

Disciplina

417/.22

Soggetti

Creole dialects

Pidgin languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the International Workshop on the Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages, University of Siegen, August 22-24, 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1: Segments and syllables -- Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked / Ujfmann, Christian -- A new look at nasalization in Haitian Creole / Valdman, Albert / Iskrova, Iskra -- Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole / Nikiema, Emmanuel / Bhatt, Parth -- Rules vs. analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan / Lappe, Sabine / Plag, Ingo -- New evidence from the past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize? That is the question / Smith, Norval -- Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense / Schang, Emmanuel -- Section 2: Stress, tone and intonation -- The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values / Brousseau, Anne-Marie -- African American English suprasegmentals: Α study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States / Sutcliffe, David -- Section 3: Morphophonology -- The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian / James, Winford -- Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication / Gooden, Shelome -- Syllable structure and lexical markedness in Creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere / Klein, Thomas Β. -- Section 4: Derivational morphology -- Early 18th century Sranan -man / van den Berg, Margot -- Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole) / Steinkrüger, Patrick -- The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin



and the notion of'simplicity' in pidgin and Creole languages: What happens to morphology under contact? / Faraclas, Nicholas -- Section 5: Inflectional morphology -- What verbal morphology can tell us about Creole genesis: the case of French-related Creoles / Veenstra, Tonjes -- Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and Creoles: A comparative study / Baptista, Marlyse -- Inflectional categories in Creole languages / Kihm, Alain -- Subject Index -- Language Index -- Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contents: Christian Uffmann, Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked. - Albert Valdman/Iskra Iskrova, A new look at nazalization in Haitian Creole. - Emmanuel Nikiema/Parth Bhatt, Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole. - Sabine Lappe/Ingo Plag, Rules versus analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan. - Norval Smith, New evidence from the Past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize, that is the question. - Emmanuel Schang, Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense. - Anne-Marie Brousseau, The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values. - David Sutcliffe, African American English suprasegmentals: A study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States. - Winford James, The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian. - Shelome Gooden, Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication. - Thomas Klein, Syllable structure and lexical markedness in creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere. - Margot van den Berg, Early 18th century Sranan -man. - Patrick Steinkrüger, Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole). - Nicholas Faraclas, The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin and the notion of ›simplicityTonjes Veenstra, What verbal morphology can tell us about creole genesis: the case of French-related creoles. - Marlyse Baptista, Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and creoles: a comparative study. - Alain Kihm, Inflectional categories in creole languages.