Degrees of Restructuring in Creole LanguagesIngrid Neumann-Holzschuh, Edgar Werner Schneider John Benjamins Publishing, 2000 - 492 pages Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of creole languages itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different degrees of radicalness and intermediate language types ( semi-creoles )? If so, by which linguistic structures are these characterized, and by which extralinguistic conditions have they been brought about? Which are the linguistic mechanisms underlying processes of restructuring, and how did grammaticalization and reanalysis shape the reorganization of linguistic, specifically morphosyntactic structures commonly called creolization ? What is the role of language contact, language mixing, substrates and superstrates, or demographic factors in these processes? This volume provides select and revised papers from a 1998 colloquium at the University of Regensburg in which these questions were addressed. 19 contributions by renowned scholars discuss structural, sociohistorical and theoretical aspects, building upon case studies of both Romance-based and English-oriented creoles. This book marks a major step forward in our understanding of the nature of creolization. |
Table des matières
Degrees of restructuring in creole languages? | 1 |
Problemsin the development of theory | 19 |
Theories of creolization and the degree and nature of restructuring | 41 |
Creolization is a social not a structural process | 65 |
Defining creole as a synchronic term | 85 |
Opposite processes in creolization | 125 |
A cognitive approach to the genesis of tense markers | 135 |
Evidence from creole and noncreole languages | 163 |
Restructuring in vitro? Evidence from Early Krio | 275 |
The development of paragoge in Sranan | 309 |
The development of the life form lexicon of Tok Pisin | 337 |
Les cas de SaintBarthélemy et de la Réunion | 361 |
Le cas du créole louisianais | 383 |
The anomalous case of Palenquero | 409 |
Restructuring or creolization? | 437 |
Centre africain et périphérie portugaise dans le Créole santiagais du Cap Vert? | 469 |
Reassessing the role of demographics in language restructuring | 185 |
The case of Bajan | 215 |
Some evidence from Earlier African American VernacularEnglish in South Carolina | 247 |
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