Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the Contribution of Substrates and SuperstratesSusanne Michaelis This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language structure including phonology, morphology, and syntax, providing a wealth of structural and sociohistorical data that any comprehensive theory of contact languages will have to account for. Each of the papers provides a thorough description of a structural phenomenon against the background of the sociohistorical contact situation. The languages covered in the book are: Guiné-Bissau Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawai'i Creole, Indo-Portuguese creoles, Jamaican Creole, Lingua Franca, North American French, Mauritian Creole, Santomense, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sranan, Surinamese Maroon creoles, Vincentian Creole, and Zamboangueño Chavacano. |
Contents
The problem of multiple substrates | 1 |
The superstrate is not always the lexifier | 29 |
In praise of the cafeteria principle | 59 |
Tense marking and inflectional morphology in IndoPortuguese creoles | 83 |
Vowel epenthesis and creole syllable structure | 123 |
The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan | 153 |
Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri | 169 |
On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creoles lexicon | 197 |
Zamboangue o Chavacano and the potentive mode | 279 |
Between contact and internal development | 301 |
The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole | 333 |
A la recherche du superstrat | 357 |
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Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole | 225 |
A first step towards the analysis of tone in Santomense | 253 |
Balanta GuinéBissau Creole Portuguese and Portuguese | 263 |
The series Creole Language Library | 427 |
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