Kouwenberg / Singler The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0599-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 704 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited andbroad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics andresearch in pidgin and creole studies.
* A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of coreaspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animatecreole studies
* Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an internationalcontributor team
* Accessibly structured into four sections covering: thecharacter of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creolesto other language phenomena and other languages; issues inpidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles insociety
* Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars andresearchers working across a number linguistic disciplines,including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and theanthropology of language

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kouwenberg, Silvia

Singler, John Victor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations.
1 Introduction (Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler).
Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles.
2 Atlantic Creole Syntax (Donald Winford).
3 Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate,Discourse, and Inherent Variability (Miriam Meyerhoff).
4 Pidgin and Creole Morphology (Terry Crowley).
5 Creole Phonology (Norval S. H. Smith).
6 Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles (Peter Bakker).
7 Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles (Kees Versteegh).
Part II Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis.
8 Pidgins/Creoles, and Second Language Acquisition (JeffSiegel).
9 Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language BioprogramHypothesis (Tonjes Veenstra).
10 Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics (Sarah G.Thomason).
11 Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview (RajendMesthrie).
12 Creole Studies and Multilingualism (Pieter Muysken).
13 A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation (JacquesArends).
14 The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis (John VictorSingler).
15 The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis (Christine Jourdan).
Part III Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation.
16 Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles (AdrienneBruyn).
17 Creoles, Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal(Alain Kihm).
18 Semantic Evidence in Pidgin and Creole Genesis (GeorgeHuttar).
19 Pidgins, Creoles, and Variation (Peter L. Patrick).
Part IV Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages.
20 The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin andCreole Studies (Judy Kegl).
21 Pidgins/Creoles and African American English (Arthur K.Spears).
22 Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean (John M. Lipski).
Part V Pidgins/Creoles in Society.
23 Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse (Geneviève Escure).
24 Pidgins/Creoles and Education (Dennis Craig).
25 Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles (HubertDevonish).
26 Literary Representations of Creole Languages:Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean (HélèneBuzelin and Lise Winer).
Author Index.
Language Index.
Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Silvia Kouwenberg is Senior Lecturer in the Department ofLanguage, Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of the WestIndies (Mona, Jamaica). Her publications include A Grammar ofBerbice Dutch (1994), Papiamentu (with Eric Murray,1994), and Twice as Meaningful: Reduplication in Pidgins,Creoles and Other Contact Languages (edited, 2003).
John Victor Singler is Professor of Linguistics at NewYork University. His publications include An Introduction toLiberian English (1981) and Pidgin and CreoleTense-Mood-Aspect Systems (edited, 1990).