The emergence of Creole syllable structure : a cross-linguistic study / / Mareile Schramm

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464179003321
• Autore: Schramm Mareile
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Munich] : , : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 3-11-039530-4; 3-11-033956-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Collana: Linguistische arbeiten / edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Gereon Müller, Ingo Plag, Beatrice Primus, Elisabeth Stark and Richard Wiese ; ; volume 554
• Classificazione: EE 1660
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetti: Creole dialects - Caribbean Area; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syllable; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations and notational conventions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Creole genesis and syllable structure -- 3. Data and Methodology -- 4. Syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in the Dutch-based creoles -- 5. Syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in the English-based creoles -- 6. Syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in the French-based creoles -- 7. Syllable structure in the six creoles: Similarities and differences -- 8. Explaining creole phonotactic restructuring -- 9. Creole syllable structure: A final assessment -- Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: This book investigates syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in six Caribbean creoles with Dutch, English and French as main lexifier languages. The earliest reliable data available for each creole are analysed statistically to determine which lexifier structures are retained in the creole, which ones undergo restructuring (and at which rates) and which restructuring mechanisms are preferred in case of repair. The description of creole structures is kept as theory-neutral as possible to make the analysis meaningful to researchers working in ; different theoretical frameworks. The investigation reveals that, although some structures are more commonly permitted than others, there is considerable cross-creole variation, especially with respect to word-final structures. This variation concerns both permissible structures and the preferred choice among different repair strategies. It is shown that the vast majority of the observed patterns can receive a plausible explanation if we assume that L1 transfer, substrate levelling and (partial) L2 acquisition feature prominently among the mechanisms in creolisation. The findings thus provide support for recent SLA approaches to the emergence of creole phonology (Plag 2009, Uffmann 2009).; This book presents an empirical study of syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in six Caribbean creoles with Dutch, English and French as main lexifier languages. It is shown that, although some structures are more commonly permitted than others, there is considerable cross-creole variation, especially with respect to word-final structures. The findings provide support for recent SLA approaches to the emergence of creole phonology.

Historical archaeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600-1850 / / edited by Richard Veit and David Orr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812088303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Knoxville, [Tennessee] : , : The University of Tennessee Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-62190-028-2
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (441pages) : illustrations, photographs, tables
• Disciplina: 974.9
• Soggetti: Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) Antiquities; Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) History, Local
• 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 at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Richard Veit and David Orr -- American Indian ; archaeology of the historic period in the Delaware Valley / R. Michael Stewart -- Charles Conrad Abbott's archaeological investigations at a seventeenth-century house on Burlington Island, New Jersey / Carolyn Dillian, Charles Bello, Richard Veit, and Sean McHugh -- Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania: working toward the preservation of a significant historical landscape / Joseph R. Blondino -- Unearthing Wistarburgh: America's first successful glasshouse / Damon Tvaryanas and William B. Liebeknecht -- Transculturation and ethnogenesis: material culture from an eighteenth-century Pennsylvania German farmstead/distillery / Patricia Gibble -- The archaeology of food in colonial Pennsylvania: historical zooarchaeological exploration of foodways on the Stenton Plantation / Teagan Schweitzer -- The Roosevelt Inlet shipwreck, an eighteenth-century British commercial vessel in the lower Delaware Bay: a framework for interpretation / Daniel Griffith -- The archaeology of quakerism in Philadelphia and beyond: identity, conformity, and context / John M. Chenoweth -- The baker and the quaker: ongoing research from the National Constitution Center Site / William Hoffman and Deborah Miller -- Rediscovering Franklin: the archaeology of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia / Patrice Jeppson -- The early poor in Philadelphia: a preliminary report on the Philadelphia City Almshouse privy excavation / Mara Kaktins and Sharon Allitt -- The root of the matter: searching for William Hamilton's greenhouse at the Woodlands Estate, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Sarah Chesney -- "He will be a bourgeois American and spend his fortune in making gardens": an archaeological examination of Joseph Bonaparte's Point Breeze Estate / Richard Veit and Michael Gall -- Historical archaeology in Trenton: a thirty-year retrospective / Richard W. Hunter and Ian Burrow -- It takes a village: archaeology and identity at Timbuctoo / Christopher P. Barton.