Substrata versus universals in Creole genesis [[electronic resource] ] : papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985 / / edited by Pieter Muysken & Norval Smith

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1986
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Disciplina: 417/.2
• Soggetto topico: Creole dialects; Substratum (Linguistics); Linguistic universals
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: MuyskenPieter SmithNorval
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies.
• Nota di contenuto: SUBSTRATA VERSUS UNIVERSALS IN CREOLE GENESIS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; Introduction: Problems in the Identification of Substratum Features in the Creole Languages; Who, What, Where and Why?; The contributions to this volume; Synthesis; REFERENCES; The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis: Déjà Vu?; REFERENCES; Creoles and West African Languages: a Case of Mistaken Identity?; NOTES; REFERENCES; Bonnet Blanc et Blanc Bonnet: Adjective-Noun Order, Substratum and Language Universals; 1. The problem and some data; 2. Adjective order in Tok Pisin ; 3. Substratum vs. other explanations4. Conclusions; NOTES; REFERENCES; Semantic Transparency as a Factor in Creole Genesis; NOTE; REFERENCES; The Domestic Hypothesis, Diffusion and Componentiality. An Account of Atlantic Anglophone Creole Origins; 1. Evidence of a pre-1800 anglophone creole on the Coast; 2. Evidence of long-term British settlement on the Coast; 3. Evidence of domestic unions between Europeans and Africans; 4. Emergence of Creole societies; 5. Role of the grumettoes; 6. Evidence for the age and provenance of Guinea Coast Creole English ; (1) The nature of the English first heard by Africans(2) The linguistic situation in Guinea encountered by the English speakers; (3) The emergence of creolized English from English and African contact; (4) Its further modification by second-language speakers; (5) Its transmission overseas and the development of the Western creoles; 7. Summary; WORKS CONSULTED; Genesisand Development of the Equative Copula in Sranan; 1. The data; 2. The pronominal origin of copular da; 3. The historical development of the equative copula ; 4. Substrata and universals in the differentiation of the equative category5. Summary and conclusion; NOTES; APPENDIX: Historical sources used for this study; REFERENCES; The Universalistand Substrate Hypotheses Complement One Another; 1. Why Are We Discussing Only the Universalist and Substrate Hypotheses?; 2. Some High Marks for the Universalist Hypothesis; 3. Is the Substrate Hypothesis All Wrong?; 4. Double Standards regarding Atlantic and Oceanic Pidgins and Creoles?; 5. Couple of Relevant Miscellanea; NOTES; REFERENCES; Universals, Substrata and the Indian Ocean Creoles ; 1. Demography and the evolution of Reu and IdF2. Agglutination; 3. The predicate marker system in IdF and other Creoles; 4. An example of Indo-Aryan syntactic influence in Mauritian Creole; 5. Concluding remarks; NOTES; ANNEXE 1; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DoubleNegationand the Genesis of Afrikaans; 1. Preliminary considerations; 2. Afrikaans and other languages once spoken at the Cape; 2.1. Introductory remarks; 2.2. Various views on the development of Afrikaans (Hesseling e.a.); 2.3. The linguistic situation at the Cape from a historical point of view; 2.4. Consequences for research ; 3. Double negation in Afrikaans
• Sommario/riassunto: Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly reflect universal aspects of the human language capacity, and thus Creole genesis involves, then, the stripping away of the accretions of language history. The substrate hypothesis claims, on the other hand, that creole genesis results from the confrontation of two systems, the native languages of the c
• Titolo autorizzato: Substrata versus universals in Creole genesis
• ISBN: 1-283-32857-7; 9786613328571; 90-272-7941-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457433203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Creole language library ; ; v. 1.