On the Origin and Formation of Creoles
Author: Dirk Christiaan Hesseling
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 128
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Readings in Creole Studies
Author: Ian F. Hancock
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9027270600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and theoretical aspects of over twenty pidgins and creoles. Part one deals with general theoretical issues, especially those relating to pidgin language formation and expansion. Part two deals with those pidgins and creoles lexically related to indigenous African languages, and with incipient features of creolization in African languages themselves; part three with those related to Romance languages, and part four with those related to English. Throughout the volume, several current debates are taken up, including the still unsettled issues of creole language origins and classification.
Pidginization and Creolization of Languages
Author: International Conference On Pidgin And Creole Languages. 1968. Mona, Jamaique
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science
Author: Henri Cohen
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2017-06-03
Total Pages: 1277
ISBN-13: 0128097663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, Second Edition presents the study of categories and the process of categorization as viewed through the lens of the founding disciplines of the cognitive sciences, and how the study of categorization has long been at the core of each of these disciplines. The literature on categorization reveals there is a plethora of definitions, theories, models and methods to apprehend this central object of study. The contributions in this handbook reflect this diversity. For example, the notion of category is not uniform across these contributions, and there are multiple definitions of the notion of concept. Furthermore, the study of category and categorization is approached differently within each discipline. For some authors, the categories themselves constitute the object of study, whereas for others, it is the process of categorization, and for others still, it is the technical manipulation of large chunks of information. Finally, yet another contrast has to do with the biological versus artificial nature of agents or categorizers. - Defines notions of category and categorization - Discusses the nature of categories: discrete, vague, or other - Explores the modality effects on categories - Bridges the category divide - calling attention to the bridges that have already been built, and avenues for further cross-fertilization between disciplines
An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
Author: John Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521585811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
A History of Creole Trinidad, 1956-2010
Author: Raymond Ramcharitar
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-08-06
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 3030756343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a history of post-Independence Trinidad and Tobago. It explores how culture and politics have operated in tandem to shape the society. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including literature, government reports, official statistics, the press and the Carnival, it critically analyses the popular conception of creolization as the driving force in modern Trinidad and Tobago. Ultimately, the book examines the way in which Trinidad and Tobago's unique ethnic and political ecosystems contribute to its national character.
Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
Author: Peter Bakker
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2017-05-31
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9027265739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier languages. With evidence from creole languages in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific, the book provides new perspectives on creole typology, cross-creole comparisons, and creole semantics. The book offers an introduction for newcomers to the fields of creole studies and phylogenetic analysis. Using these methods to analyse a variety of linguistic features, both structural and semantic, the book then turns to explore old and new questions and problems in creole studies. Original case studies explore the differences and similarities between creoles, and propose solutions to the problems of how to classify creoles and how they formed and developed. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the unity and heterogeneity of creoles and the areal influences on their development. It also provides metalinguistic discussions of the “creole” concept from different perspectives. Finally, the book reflects critically on the findings and methods, and sets new agendas for future studies. Creole Studies has been written for a broad readership of scholars and students in the fields of contact linguistics, biolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language typology, and semantics.
Pidgins and Creoles
Author: Jacques Arends
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1994-12-20
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9027299501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion in the classroom, while Part III: Sketches of Individual Languages (such as Eskimo Pidgin, Haitian, Saramaccan, Shaba Swahili, Fa d'Ambu, Papiamentu, Sranan, Berbice Dutch) and Part IV: Grammatical Features (such as TMA particles and auxiliaries, noun phrases, reflexives, serial verbs, fronting) can form the basis for further exploration. A concluding chapter draws together the different strands of argumentation, and the annotated list provides the background information on several hundred pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. Diversity rather than unity is taken to be the central theme, and for the first time in an introduction to pidgins and creoles, the Atlantic creoles receive the attention they deserve. Pidgins are not treated as necessarily an intermediate step on the way to creoles, but as linguistic entities in their own right with their own characteristics. In addition to pidgins, mixed languages are treated in a separate chapter. Research on pidgin and creole languages during the past decade has yielded an abundance of uncovered material and new insights. This introduction, written jointly by the creolists of the University of Amsterdam, could not have been written without recourse to this new material.
Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia
Author: Jacqueline Knörr
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1782382682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
Author: Linda M. Heywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-09-10
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0521770653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.
