The structure and status of pidgins and creoles : including selected papers from the meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
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The structure and status of pidgins and creoles : including selected papers from the meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
（Creole language library, v. 19）
J. Benjamins, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole terminology and contact language typology (Section One); a requestioning of process and evolution in pidginization, creolization, and other language contact phenomena (Section Two); a reinterpretation of the sources and genesis of grammatical aspects of Saramaccan and Atlantic creoles in general (Section Three); a reconsideration of the status of languages defying received definitions of pidgins and creoles (Section Four); and analyses of aspects of grammar that shed light on the issue of what a possible creole grammar is (Section Five).
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface and Acknowledgments (by Spears, Arthur K.)
- 2. Contents
- 3. Introduction: On the structure and status of pidgins and creoles (by Winford, Donald)
- 4. I. Terminology and Typology
- 5. Jargons, pidgins, creoles, and koines: What are they? (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.)
- 6. A typology of contact languages (by Thomason, Sarah G.)
- 7. II. Process and evolution
- 8. Directionality in pidginization and creolization (by Baker, Philip)
- 9. Mixing, leveling, and pidgin/creole development (by Siegel, Jeff)
- 10. 'Matrix language recognition' and 'morphene sorting' as possible structural strategies in pidgin/creole formation (by Myers-Scotton, Carol)
- 11. The creolization of pidgin morphophonology (by Samarin, William J.)
- 12. III. Sources and Genesis
- 13. Saramaccan Creole origins: Portuguese-derived lexical correspondances and the relexification hypothesis (by Aceto, Michael)
- 14. Lost in transmission: A case for the independent emergence of the copula in Atlantic creoles (by McWhorter, John)
- 15. IV. Questions of Status
- 16. Creole-like features in the verb system of an Afro-Brazilian variety of Portuguese (by Baxter, Alan N.)
- 17. The verb phrase in Afrikaans: Evidence of creolization? (by Kleine, Christa de)
- 18. Shaba Swahili: Partial creolization due to second language learning and substrate pressure (by Rooij, Vincent de)
- 19. The status of Isicamtho, an Nguni-based urban variety of Soweto (by Childs, G. Tucker)
- 20. V. Aspects of Structure
- 21. New light on Eskimo pidgins (by Voort, Hein van der)
- 22. Reduplication in Ndyuka (by Huttar, Mary L.)
- 23. Tense-aspect-mood in Principense (by Maurer, Philippe)
- 24. Author Index
- 25. Language Index
- 26. Subject Index
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