Ibero-Asian Creoles

Comparative Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-5269-2
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 375 Seiten, Gewicht: 840 g

Reihe: Creole Language Library

Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume, the first one dedicated to the Portuguese- and Spanish-lexified creoles of Asia, brings together comparative studies on various issues across the Ibero-Asian creoles and beyond, by specialists in these languages. This type of cross-linguistic analysis allows progress on many fronts, including the reconstruction of past stages of the languages, the explanation of observed similarities and differences, the identification and consolidation of typological/taxonomic clusters, or the assessment of the linguistic effects of different contact equations. The volume provides a timely window onto aspects of current research on the Ibero-Asian creoles, including unsettled debates and ways in which their study can contribute to advance several areas of linguistic enquiry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cardoso, Hugo C.

Baxter, Alan N.

Pinharanda Nunes, Mário

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda Nunes

Notes on the phonology and lexicon of some Indo-Portuguese creoles
J. Clancy Clements

A closer look at the post-nominal genitive in Asian Creole Portuguese
Alan N. Baxter and Augusta Bastos

Luso-Asian comparatives in comparison
Hugo C. Cardoso

Measuring substrate influence: Word order features in Ibero-Asian Creoles
Ian Smith

Indefinite terms in Ibero-Asian Creoles
Eeva Sippola

Maskin, maski, masque… in the Spanish and Portuguese creoles of Asia: Same particle, same provenance?
Nancy Vázquez Veiga and Mauro A. Fernández

Nenang, nino, nem n­ão, ni no: Similarities and differences
Mauro A. Fernández

Bilug in Zamboangueño Chavacano: The genericization of a substrate numeral classifier
Carl Rubino

Portuguese pidgin and Chinese Pidgin English in the Canton trade
Stephen Matthews and Michelle Li

Traces of superstrate verb inflection in Makista and other Asian-Portuguese creoles
Mário Pinharanda Nunes

Mindanao Chabacano and other ‘mixed creoles’: Sourcing the morphemic components
Anthony P. Grant

Language index

Location index

General index