Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages
Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages

Author: Ingo Plag

Publisher: ISSN

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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Contents: Christian Uffmann, Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked. - Albert Valdman/Iskra Iskrova, A new look at nazalization in Haitian Creole. - Emmanuel Nikiema/Parth Bhatt, Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole. - Sabine Lappe/Ingo Plag, Rules versus analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan. - Norval Smith, New evidence from the Past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize, that is the question. - Emmanuel Schang, Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense. - Anne-Marie Brousseau, The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values. - David Sutcliffe, African American English suprasegmentals: A study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States. - Winford James, The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian. - Shelome Gooden, Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication. - Thomas Klein, Syllable structure and lexical markedness in creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere. - Margot van den Berg, Early 18th century Sranan -man. - Patrick Steinkrüger, Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole). - Nicholas Faraclas, The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin and the notion of >simplicityTonjes Veenstra, What verbal morphology can tell us about creole genesis: the case of French-related creoles. - Marlyse Baptista, Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and creoles: a comparative study. - Alain Kihm, Inflectional categories in creole languages.

The Structure of Creole Words
The Structure of Creole Words

Author: Parth Bhatt

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-02-13

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 3110891689

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This volume brings together articles that are focused on segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects of creole words, thus contributing to the ongoing debates about the nature of phonology and morphology and their role in emergence and development of these languages. The papers cover a wide range of creole languages with different lexifier languages and address empirical, typological, historical and theoretical issues, drawing our attention to hitherto unknown phenomena or offering interesting new analyses of established facts. With contributions from: Parth Bhatt, Alain Kihm, Thomas Klein, Emmanuel Nikiema, Ingo Plag, Marina Pucciarelli, Jean-Louis Rougé, Eric Russel-Webb, Shobha Satyanath, Emmanuel Schang, Mareile Schramm, Norval Smith, Marleen van de Vate and Tonjes Veenstra.

Roots of Creole Structures
Roots of Creole Structures

Author: Susanne Michaelis

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9027252556

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This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language structure including phonology, morphology, and syntax, providing a wealth of structural and sociohistorical data that any comprehensive theory of contact languages will have to account for. Each of the papers provides a thorough description of a structural phenomenon against the background of the sociohistorical contact situation. The languages covered in the book are: Guiné-Bissau Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawai'i Creole, Indo-Portuguese creoles, Jamaican Creole, Lingua Franca, North American French, Mauritian Creole, Santomense, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sranan, Surinamese Maroon creoles, Vincentian Creole, and Zamboangueño Chavacano.

The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures

Author: Susanne Maria Michaelis

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 0199691398

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The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed among the world's pidgins and creoles. Designed and written by the world's leading experts, it is a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.

Pidgins and Creoles
Pidgins and Creoles

Author: Jacques Arends

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1994-12-20

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 9027299501

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This 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.

A grammar of Pichi
A grammar of Pichi

Author: Kofi Yakpo

Publisher: Language Science Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 645

ISBN-13: 3961101337

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Pichi is an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. It is an offshoot of 19th century Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with West African relatives like Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, and Ghanaian Pidgin English, as well as with the English-lexifier creoles of the insular and continental Caribbean. This comprehensive description presents a detailed analysis of the grammar and phonology of Pichi. It also includes a collection of texts and wordlists. Pichi features a nominative-accusative alignment, SVO word order, adjective-noun order, prenominal determiners, and prepositions. The language has a seven-vowel system and twenty-two consonant phonemes. Pichi has a two-tone system with tonal minimal pairs, morphological tone, and tonal processes. The morphological structure is largely isolating. Pichi has a rich system of tense-aspect-mood marking, an indicative-subjunctive opposition, and a complex copular system with several suppletive forms. Many features align Pichi with the Atlantic-Congo languages spoken in the West African littoral zone. At the same time, characteristics like the prenominal position of adjectives and determiners show a typological overlap with its lexifier English, while extensive contact with Spanish has left an imprint on the lexicon and grammar as well.

The Americas and the Caribbean
The Americas and the Caribbean

Author: Edgar W. Schneider

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-12-10

Total Pages: 833

ISBN-13: 3110208407

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This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken in the Americas and the Caribbean, including regional, social and ethnic dialects (such as Southern US, Canadian or Chicano English) as well as Caribbean creoles from the Bahamas to Suriname. The chapters, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonological, morphological and syntactic characteristics of each variety discussed. The articles are followed by exercises and study questions. The exercises are geared towards students and can be used for classroom assignments as well as for self study in preparation for exams. Instructors can use the exercises, sound samples and interactive maps to enhance their classroom presentations and to highlight important language features.

Twice as Meaningful
Twice as Meaningful

Author: Silvia Kouwenberg

Publisher: Battlebridge Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Reduplication has long been considered a typical feature of Pidgins and Creoles, and this is a serious study of the phenomenon, providing descriptions of reduplicative processes in 25 Creole languages, 8 Pidgins and Afrikaans.

Jamaican Creole Syntax
Jamaican Creole Syntax

Author: B. L. Bailey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1966-01-02

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0521040825

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Beryl Loftman Bailey's book was one of the first published on the Jamaican Creole language.

An Introduction to Linguistic Typology
An Introduction to Linguistic Typology

Author: Viveka Velupillai

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9027211981

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Offers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. This title also includes a discussion on methodological issues in typology.