Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole LanguagesJohn Benjamins Publishing, 2004 M02 26 - 358 pages The content of this book is concerned with various issues at stake in Creole studies that are also of interest for general linguistics. These include the general issue of Creole genesis and of the accelerated linguistic change that characterizes the emergence of these languages as compared to ordinary cases of linguistic change, the problem of the development of morphology in incipient Creoles, the problem of the validity of data in linguistic analysis, the issue of multifunctionality as regards the concept of lexical entry, the question of whether Creole languages are semantically more transparent than languages not known as Creoles, the issue of whether Creole languages constitute a typologically identifiable class and the problem of the interaction between the processes involved in the emergence and development of Creole languages. The purpose of this book is to present the major debates that are currently taking place in the field of Creole studies; evaluate the arguments against data (mainly drawn from Haitian Creole); and address the issues at stake within the framework of new paradigms. The various positions on each issue are summarized on the basis of a thorough review of the literature. |
Contents
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CHAPTER 3 THE RELEXIFICATION ACCOUNT OF CREOLE GENESIS THE CASE OF HAITIAN CREOLE
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CHAPTER 4 WHAT DO CREOLE STUDIES HAVE TO OFFER TO MAINSTREAM LINGUISTICS?
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CHAPTER 5 ON DATA
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CHAPTER 6 MULTIFUNCTIONALITY AND THE CONCEPT OF LEXICAL ENTRY
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CHAPTER 7 ON THE SEMANTIC OPACITY OF CREOLE LANGUAGES
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CHAPTER 8 DO CREOLE LANGUAGES REALLY FORM A TYPOLOGICAL CLASS?
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CHAPTER 9 THE INTERPLAY OF RELEXIFICATION AND LEVELLING IN CREOLE GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT
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CHAPTER 10 THE EMERGENCE OF PRODUCTIVE MORPHOLOGY IN CREOLE LANGUAGES THE CASE OF HAITIAN CREOLE
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APPENDIX 1 A RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON PC GENESIS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY | 341 |
APPENDIX 2 THE COMPOSITION OF THE HAITIAN LEXICON | 345 |
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account of creole adjectives adverbial argued basis category lexical entries chapter clause clitics complementiser corresponding creators of Haitian creole genesis creole languages creole studies DeGraff deictic terms derivational affixes dialect levelling discussed in Lefebvre encode example fact French functional category Gbe languages grammar grammaticalisation Haitian and Fongbe Haitian Creole Haitian lexicon Haitian verbs incipient creole interpretation Koopman Kwa languages Kwaio Lefebvre 1998a Lefebvre and Lumsden lexical entries linguistic major category lexical Mary meaning mixed languages morphemes morphology Mufwene multifunctionality Muysken nominal structure output PC genesis phonetic phonological representation phonologically null pidgin and creole Plag plural marker predicts prefix preposition productive affixes pronoun proposed reanalysis reflexive relabelling relexification relexification hypothesis Sankoff Saramaccan second language acquisition semantic Semantic Transparency Hypothesis shown source languages Sranan substratum languages suffix superstratum language syntactic category syntactic properties theory underspecification Valdman variation verbal base West African languages