Creoles, contact, and language change : linguistics and social implications / / edited by Genevieve Escure, Armin Schwegler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809734903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-16020-6; 9786612160202; 90-272-9508-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 27
• Altri autori (Persone): EscureGenevieve; SchweglerArmin <1955->
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetti: Creole dialects; Languages in contact; Linguistic change
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Creoles, Contact, and Language Change -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The origins of Macanese reduplication -- References -- Notes -- 2. Court records as a source of authentic early Sranan -- References -- Notes -- Archival sources -- 3. Garifuna in Belize and Honduras -- References -- Notes -- 4. The Nova Scotia-Sierra Leone connection -- Appendix -- References -- Notes -- 5. The development of variable NP plural agreement in a restructured African variety of Portuguese -- References -- Notes -- 6. Second language acquisition in creole genesis -- Notes -- References -- 7. OT and the acquisition of Jamaican syllable structure -- References -- Notes -- 8. Double-object constructions in two Frenchbased creoles (Morisyen and Seselwa) -- References -- Notes -- 9. Passive voice in Papiamento -- References -- Notes -- 10. Tone assignment on lexical items of English and African origin in Krio -- References -- 11. TMA and the St. Lucian Creole verb phrase -- References -- Notes -- 12. The Limonese calypso as an identity marker -- Discography -- References -- Notes -- 13. The speech event kuutu in the Eastern Maroon community -- References -- Notes -- 14. Reflexivity in ; French-based creoles -- Sources -- References -- Notes -- 15. The role of style and identity in the development of Hawaiian Creole -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Creole Language Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists' current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax.