Pidginization and Creolization of Languages

by Hymes, Dell

• ISBN13: 9780521078337
• ISBN10: 0521078334
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1971-01-02
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface and Introduction: Preface

Introduction: the study of pidgin and creole languages

A Pidgin (and Two Creoles): Introduction

TÃóy Bá”ôi: notes on the pidgin French spoken in Vietnam

The Katanga (Lubumbashi) Swahili creole

The language situation in Haiti

General Conceptions of Process: Introduction

Linguistic hybridization and the 'special case' of pidgins and creoles

Salient and substantive pidginization

Absence of copula and the notion of simplicity: a study of normal speech, baby talk, foreigner talk, and pidgins

Convergence and creolization: a case from the Indo-Aryan/Dravidian border

Acculturation and the cultural matrix of creolization

Hypotheses as to the origin and modification of pidgins

A note on reduction and expansion in grammar

Language contact and the problem of convergent generative systems: Chinook jargon

The question of creolization in Puerto Rican Spanish

Problems of Historical Reconstruction: Introduction

Tracing the pidgin element in Jamaican creole (with notes on the nature of pidgin vocabularies)

Lexical origins and semantic structure in Philippine creole Spanish

The strange case of Mbugu (Tanzania)

Detecting prior creolization: an analysis of the historical origins of Marathi

A report on Chinook jargon

Problems in the study of Hawaiian English

Kongo words in Saramaxx Tongo

Tone and intonation in Sierra Leone

A provisional comparison of the English-derived Atlantic creoles

Grammatical and lexical affinities of creoles

Variation and Use: A Range of English-Linked Cases: Introduction

Varieties of creole in Suriname: church creole and pagan cult languages

Prestige in choice of language and linguistic form Christian

The art of reading creole poetry

Coexistent systems in language variation: the case of Hawaiian English

Jamaican creole: can dialect boundaries be defined?

Toward a generative analysis of a post-creole speech continuum

Education and creole English in the West Indies: some sociolinguistic factors

The creolist and the study of Negro non-standard dialects in the continental United States

Cultural and linguistic ambiguity: some observations on the role of English-based creole in and Antiguan village

The English language in Hawaii

A report on neo-Melanesian

Disciplinary Perspectives: Introduction

Some social forces and some social functions of pidgin and creole languages

The notion of 'system' in creole languages

Language history and creole studies

The socio-historical background to pidginization and creolization

Appendices

Index

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