The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

by Kouwenberg, Silvia; Singler, John Victor

• ISBN13: 9780631229025
• ISBN10: 0631229027
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Properties of Pidgins and Creoles.

Atlantic Creole Syntax

Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability

Pidgin and Creole Morphology

Creole Phonology

Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles

Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles

Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis.

Pidgins/Creoles, and Second Language Acquisition

Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis

Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics

Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview

Creole Studies and Multilingualism

A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation

The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis (John Victor Singler)

The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis

Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation.

Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles

Creoles, Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal

Semantic Evidence in Pidgin and Creole Genesis

Pidgins, Creoles, and Variation

Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages.

The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin and Creole Studies

Pidgins/Creoles and African American English

Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean

Pidgins/Creoles in Society.

Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse (Geneviève Escure)

Pidgins/Creoles and Education

Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles

Literary Representations of Creole Languages: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean (Hélène Buzelin and Lise Winer)

Author Index

Language Index

Subject Index

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