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This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect – from various perspectives and using different types of data – on the interplay between structure and variation in contact languages, both synchronically and diachronically. The contributors consider a wide range of languages, including Surinamese creoles, Chinook Jargon, Yiddish, AAVE, Haitian Creole, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Portuguese varieties, Nigerian Pidgin, Sri Lankan Malay, Papiamentu, and Bahamian Creole English. A need to question and test existing claims regarding pidginization/creolization is evident in all contributions, and the authors provide analyses for a variety of grammatical structures: VO-ordering and affixation, agglutination, negation, TMAs, plural marking, the copula, and serial verb constructions. The volume provides ample evidence for the observation that pidgin/creole studies is today a mature subfield of linguistics which is making important contributions to general linguistic theory.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction (by Deumert, Ana); 2. Part I: Structure; 3. The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan (by Good, Jeff); 4. Tracing the origin of modality in the creoles of Suriname (by Migge, Bettina); 5. Modelling Creole Genesis: Headedness in morphology (by Veenstra, Tonjes); 6. The restructuring of tense/aspect systems in creole formation (by Winford, Donald); 7. Syntactic properties of negation in Chinook Jargon, with a comparison of two source languages (by Vrzic, Zvjezdana); 8. Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax: Lankan or Malay? (by Slomanson, Peter); 9. Sri Lanka Malay: Creole or convert? (by Smith, Ian); 10. The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for proven or putative relexified languages: (Extrapolating from the Yiddish experience) (by Wexler, Paul); 11. Part II: Variation; 12. A fresh look at habitual be in AAVE (by Collins, Chris); 13. Oral narrative and tense in urban Bahamian Creole English (by Hackert, Stephanie); 14. Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures (by Deuber, Dagmar); 15. A linguistic time-capsule: Plural /s/ reduction in Afro-Portuguese and Afro-Hispanic historical texts (by Ferreira, Fernanda L.); 16. The progressive in the spoken Papiamentu of Aruba (by Sanchez, Tara); 17. Was Haitian ever more like French? (by Parkvall, Mikael); 18. The late transfer of serial verb constructions as stylistic variants in Saramaccan creole (by Kramer, Marvin); 19. Index


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  • ISBN-13: 9789027252517
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Height: 245 mm
  • No of Pages: 386
  • Weight: 815 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9027252513
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 386
  • Width: 164 mm


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