William Jennings, Stefan Pfänder

Gebundenes Buch

Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language

Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

Beschreibung

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages in contact.
Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Autor

William Jennings is Senior Lecturer in French language, linguistics and culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research interests lie primarily within French colonial and encounter history, with a particular focus on the emergence of creole languages and societies. Stefan Pfänder is Full Professor of Romance linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitäts Freiburg, Germany. His teaching focuses on French, Spanish, Italian and Creole, while his research centres around the emergence of grammatical constructions in interaction, and usage-based models of language variation and change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin / University of Waikato
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-61951-4
• 1st ed. 2018
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9783319619514
• ISBN-10: 3319619519
• Artikelnr.: 48352463

Rezensionen

"The book is well written, the argumentation is usually clear, the authors have a clear theorical framework, they present a great deal of linguistic data ... . This book is probably its best test to date. ... In short, this is an interesting book, more historically informed than most works of its kind." (Peter Bakker, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Vol. 36 (2), 2021)