Agency in the emergence of Creole languages [[electronic resource] ] : the role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era Creoles / / edited by Nicholas Faraclas

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetto topico: Creole dialects - History; Creole dialects - Africa; African languages - Africa; Languages in contact - Africa
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FaraclasNicholas
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Abbreviations; Marginalized Peoples, Racialized slavery and the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles; 1. Economic vs. cultural factors in the emergence of racialized slavery; 2. Reconciling the economic and cultural positions; 2.1 Ira Berlin: Charter Generation vs. Plantation Generation slaves; 2.2 Heywood & Thornton: Creole slaves vs. non-Creole slaves; 2.3 Initial progress, but not far enough ; 3. Debates concerning Creole Genesis: Chaudenson and Berlin 4. Rethinking of dominant discourses on Atlantic history and society; 4.1 Demographics and sociétés de cohabitation; 4.2 Renegade communities; 4.2.1 Maroons; 4.2.2 Pirates; 4.3 Failed attempts at European colonization of the Caribbean; 4.4 The French, the English, and sociétés de cohabitation; 5. Renegades, resistance, and the emergence of capitalism, racialized slavery, and creole cultures and languages; African Agency in the Emergence of the Atlantic Creoles; 1. Introduction; 2. Erroneous assumptions ; 2.1 Eurocentric notions: Monolingualism, nonoculturalism, unitary identity 2.2 Outdated classification of African languages; 2.3 The 'one and only substrate'; 2.4 Universals before substrates; 3. Conclusion; Women and Colonial Era Creolization; 1. History and women's agency in the caribbean; 2. Women, cohabitation, and habitation: Broad but covert creolization; 3. Women and plantation: Narrow but overt creolization; 4. Women, language, and creolization; Indigenous Peoples and the emergence of the Caribbean Creoles; 1. Introduction ; 2. Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and the mythical 'Arawak-Carib Divide'3. Creolization and sociétés de cohabitation; 4. Demographics and indigenous influence on Caribbean Creoles; 5. Sociolinguistics and indigenous influence on Caribbean Creoles; 6. Economics and indigenous influence on Caribbean Creoles; 7. Politics and indigenous influence on Caribbean Creoles; 8. Culture and indigenous influence on Caribbean Creoles; Linguistic evidence for the influence of indigenous Caribbean grammars on the grammars of the Atlantic Creoles ; 1. Introduction: A comparison of linguistic features found in the Atlantic Creoles 2. Phonology and sentence level morphosyntax in the Atlantic Creoles and in North Arawakan; 3. Serial verb constructions in the Atlantic Creoles and in North Arawakan; 4. Copulas in the Atlantic Creoles and in North Arawakan; 5. Tense, modality, and aspect in the Atlantic Creoles and in North Arawakan; 6. Patterns of multifunctionality in the Atlantic Creoles and in North Arawakan; 7. Nominals and noun phrases in the Atlantic Creoles and in North Arawakan; 8. Conclusions ; Sociétés de cohabitation and the similarities between the English lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic and the Pacific
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a 'must read' for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic accounts of creole genesis, this volume considers socio-historical and linguistic evidence that attests to the important roles played in the emergence of the Atlantic and Pacific Creoles by marginalized populations, such as women and people of non-European descent. In this work, the authors amass and critica
• Titolo autorizzato: Agency in the emergence of Creole languages
• ISBN: 1-280-67685-X; 9786613653789; 90-272-7379-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452237703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Creole language library ; ; v. 45.