This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides an up-to-date and readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades. Written for both students and general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics, the book's original perspective will also attract specialists in the field seeking a broad overview of the linguistic relationships among these languages. Creolized, or restructured versions of English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portugese, and other languages arose during European colonial expansion. These resulted in such creoles as Jamaican, Haitian, Papiamentu, and some one hundred others, as well as such semi-creoles as Afrikaans, non-standard Brazilian Portugese, Papiamentu, and American Black English. Scholars have tended to work on particular language varieties in relative isolation, making comparative research into the genesis, development, and structure of creoles difficult. In writing this book, Holm draws on broad studies of many languages to make clear how far-reaching creoles'similarities are and to challenge current linguistic theories on creoles and pidgins. The emphasis of this volume is largely empirical rather than descriptive. Its core is a comparative study of creoles based on European languages in Africa and the Caribbean that demonstrates the striking similarities among the languages in terms of their lexical semantics, phonology, and syntax. A forthcoming volume provides a socio-historic overview of variety development and text examples, with translations, of the restructured languages.
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A comparative study of pidgins and creoles based on European languages in Africa and the Caribbean challenges current linguistic theories by demonstrating striking similarities among the languages in lexical semantics, phonology and syntax.
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This chapter traces the rise and sometimes the fall of the major ideas and theoretical perspectives that have shaped the study of pidgin and creole languages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decreolizing varieties, adstrate languages, lexical source language, regressive nasalization, paragogic vowels, superstrate languages, creole phonology, preverbal markers, substrate languages, creole lexicon, anterior marker, completive markers, language bioprogram hypothesis, creole verbs, progressive marker, creole studies, preverbal tense, irrealis marker, extended pidgins, habitual marker, phrasal prepositions, adjectival verbs, lexical bases, substrate influence, anterior tense Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West African, Miskito Coast, Black English, Van Name, New World, Lesser Antillean, Gulf of Guinea, Cape Verde, Ivens Ferraz, West Indies, United States, Brazilian Portuguese, French Guiana, Hawaiian Creole English, Josselin de Jong, Liberian English, Tok Pisin, West Atlantic, Eastern Ijo, Irish English, Middle English, Isle de France, Mauritian Creole French, Sranan Creole English, Berbice Creole Dutch New!
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This chapter traces the rise and sometimes the fall of the major ideas and theoretical perspectives that have shaped the study of pidgin and creole languages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decreolizing varieties, adstrate languages, lexical source language, regressive nasalization, paragogic vowels, superstrate languages, creole phonology, preverbal markers, substrate languages, creole lexicon, anterior marker, completive markers, language bioprogram hypothesis, creole verbs, progressive marker, creole studies, preverbal tense, irrealis marker, extended pidgins, habitual marker, phrasal prepositions, adjectival verbs, lexical bases, substrate influence, anterior tense Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West African, Miskito Coast, Black English, Van Name, New World, Lesser Antillean, Gulf of Guinea, Cape Verde, Ivens Ferraz, West Indies, United States, Brazilian Portuguese, French Guiana, Hawaiian Creole English, Josselin de Jong, Liberian English, Tok Pisin, West Atlantic, Eastern Ijo, Irish English, Middle English, Isle de France, Mauritian Creole French, Sranan Creole English, Berbice Creole Dutch New!
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- Black English by J.L. Dillard on page 55, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nigerian Pidgin (Descriptive Grammars) by Nick Faraclas on page 85, and Back Matter
- A Bibliography of Pidgin and Creole Languages (Oceanic linguistics special publications) by John E. Reinecke on page 38, and page 60
- A Dictionary of Jamaican English by Frederic Gomes Cassidy on page 45, and Back Matter
- Varieties of English (Studies in English Language) by Dennis Freeborn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Entwisted Tongues.Comparative Creole Literatures.(Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature. 23) by George Lang on 15 pages
- A Pepper-Pot of Cultures: Aspects of Creolization in the Caribbean (Matatu 27-28) by Gordon Collier on 7 pages
- Yearbook of Morphology 2002 by G.E. Booij on 4 pages
- An Introduction to Contact Linguistics (Language in Society) by Donald Winford in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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