Dell H. Hymes, D. Hymes

Pidginization and Creolization of Languages

Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of the West Indies Mona, Jamaica, April 1968

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays on the pidginization and creolization of language, taken from a conference at The University of the West Indies in April 1968.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 867g
• ISBN-13: 9780521098885
• ISBN-10: 0521098882
• Artikelnr.: 33160018

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Preface and Introduction: Preface Dell Hymes; Introduction: the
study of pidgin and creole languages David Decamp; Part II. A Pidgin (and
Two Creoles): Introduction; 1. Tây B¿i: notes on the pidgin French spoken
in Vietnam John E. Reinecke; 2. The Katanga (Lubumbashi) Swahili creole
Edgar Polomé; 3. The language situation in Haiti Albert Valdman; Part III.
General Conceptions of Process: Introduction; 4. Linguistic hybridization
and the 'special case' of pidgins and creoles Keith Whinnom; 5. Salient and
substantive pidginization William J. Samarin; 6. Absence of copula and the
notion of simplicity: a study of normal speech, baby talk, foreigner talk,
and pidgins Charles A. Ferguson; 7. Convergence and creolization: a case
from the Indo-Aryan/Dravidian border John J. Gumperz and Robert Wilson; 8.
Acculturation and the cultural matrix of creolization Mervyn C. Alleyne; 9.
Hypotheses as to the origin and modification of pidgins Martin Joos; 10. A
note on reduction and expansion in grammar Jan Voorhoeve; 11. Language
contact and the problem of convergent generative systems: Chinook jargon
Michael Silverstein; 12. The question of creolization in Puerto Rican
Spanish David Lawton; Part IV. Problems of Historical Reconstruction:
Introduction; 13. Tracing the pidgin element in Jamaican creole (with notes
on the nature of pidgin vocabularies) Frederick G. Cassidy; 14. Lexical
origins and semantic structure in Philippine creole Spanish Charles O.
Frake; 15. The strange case of Mbugu (Tanzania) Morris Goodman; 16.
Detecting prior creolization: an analysis of the historical origins of
Marathi Franklin C. Southworth; 17. A report on Chinook jargon Terrence S.
Kaufman; 18. Problems in the study of Hawaiian English Stanley Tsuzaki; 19.
Kongo words in Saramaxx Tongo Jan Daeleman; 20. Tone and intonation in
Sierra Leone Krio Jack Berry; 21. A provisional comparison of the
English-derived Atlantic creoles Ian F. Hancock; 22. Grammatical and
lexical affinities of creoles Douglas Taylor; Part V. Variation and Use: A
Range of English-Linked Cases: Introduction; 23. Varieties of creole in
Suriname: church creole and pagan cult languages Jan Voorhoeve; 24.
Prestige in choice of language and linguistic form Christian Eersel; 25.
The art of reading creole poetry Jan Voorhoeve; 26. Coexistent systems in
language variation: the case of Hawaiian English Stanley Tsuzaki; 27.
Jamaican creole: can dialect boundaries be defined? Beryl L. Bailey; 28.
Toward a generative analysis of a post-creole speech continuum David
Decamp; 28. Education and creole English in the West Indies: some
sociolinguistic factors Dennis R. Craig; 29. The creolist and the study of
Negro non-standard dialects in the continental United States J. L. Dillard;
30. Cultural and linguistic ambiguity: some observations on the role of
English-based creole in and Antiguan village Karl Reisman; 31. The English
language in Hawaii Elizabeth Carr; 32. A report on neo-Melanesian Edward
Wolfers; Part VI. Disciplinary Perspectives: Introduction; 33. Some social
forces and some social functions of pidgin and creole languages Allen D.
Grimshaw; 34. The notion of 'system' in creole languages William Labov; 35.
Language history and creole studies Henry M. Hoenigswald; 36. The
socio-historical background to pidginization and creolization Sidney W.
Mintz; Part VII. Appendices; Index.