The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kouwenberg, Silvia; Singler, John Victor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. * A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies * Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team * Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society * Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444305999
• Artikelnr.: 37364265

Autorenporträt

Silvia Kouwenberg is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). Her publications include A Grammar of Berbice 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 New York University. His publications include An Introduction to Liberian English (1981) and Pidgin and Creole Tense-Mood-Aspect Systems (edited, 1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii
List of Abbreviations xiv
1 Introduction 1
Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler
Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles 17
2 Atlantic Creole Syntax 19
Donald Winford
3 Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and
Inherent Variability 48
Miriam Meyerhoff
4 Pidgin and Creole Morphology 74
Terry Crowley
5 Creole Phonology 98
Norval S. H. Smith
6 Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles 130
Peter Bakker
7 Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles 158
Kees Versteegh
Part II Perspectives on Pidgin/creole Genesis 187
8 Pidgins/Creoles, and Second Language Acquisition 189
Jeff Siegel
9 Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis 219
Tonjes Veenstra
10 Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics 242
Sarah G. Thomason
11 Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview 263
Rajend Mesthrie
12 Creole Studies and Multilingualism 287
Pieter Muysken
13 A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation 309
Jacques Arends
14 The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis 332
John Victor Singler
15 The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis 359
Christine Jourdan
Part III Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation 383
16 Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles 385
Adrienne Bruyn
17 Creoles, Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal 411
Alain Kihm
18 Semantic Evidence in Pidgin and Creole Genesis 440
George Huttar
19 Pidgins, Creoles, and Variation 461
Peter L. Patrick
Part IV Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages 489
20 The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin and Creole Studies
491
Judy Kegl
21 Pidgins/Creoles and African American English 512
Arthur K. Spears
22 Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean 543
John M. Lipski
Part V Pidgins/Creoles in Society 565
23 Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse 567
Geneviève Escure
24 Pidgins/Creoles and Education 593
Dennis Craig
25 Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles 615
Hubert Devonish
26 Literary Representations of Creole Languages: Cross-Linguistic
Perspectives from the Caribbean 637
Hélène Buzelin and Lise Winer
Author Index 666
Language Index 677
Subject Index 682

Rezensionen

"This handbook provides a timely overview of a constantly changing and growing field and serves as a handy reference for anyone working on pidgins and creoles or related issues."
-James Walker, York University

"A most informative handbook on pidgin and creole languages. Superbly edited, and written by the preeminent scholars in the field."
-Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine