Silvia Kouwenberg

The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

Herausgegeben:Kouwenberg, Silvia; Singler, John Victor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The comparatively recent origins of pidgins and creoles provide them with a special place in linguistic theory. Debates about the origin and character of these languages have informed broader discussions within grammatical theory, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

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Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.

A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies
Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team
Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society
Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1364g
• ISBN-13: 9780631229025
• ISBN-10: 0631229027
• Artikelnr.: 13587475

Autorenporträt

Silvia Kouwenberg is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). Her publications include A Grammar of Berbice Dutch (1994), Papiamentu (with Eric Murray, 1994), and Twice as Meaningful: Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and Other Contact Languages (edited, 2003). John Victor Singler is Professor of Linguistics at New York University. His publications include An Introduction to Liberian English (1981) and Pidgin and Creole Tense-Mood-Aspect Systems (edited, 1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Contributor notes. Abbreviations. 1. Introduction: Silvia Kouwenberg
(University of the West Indies, Jamaica) and John Victor Singler (New York
University). PART 1: Properties of Pidgins and Creoles:. 2. Atlantic Creole
Syntax: Don Winford (Ohio State University). 3. Forging Pacific Pidgin and
Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability: Miriam
Meyerhoff (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom). 4. Pidgin and Creole
Morphology: Terry Crowley (formerly the University of Waikato, New
Zealand). 5. Creole Phonology: Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam, the
Netherlands). 6. Pidgins Versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles: Peter Bakker
(Aarhus University, Denmark). 7. Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles:
Kees Versteegh (University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands). PART 2:
Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis:. 8. Pidgins, Creoles, and Second
Language Acquisition: Jeff Siegel (University of New England, Australia).
9. The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis: Tonjes Veenstra
(Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research,
Germany). 10. Pidgins/Creoles, and Historical Linguistics: Sarah Thomason
(University of Michigan). 11. Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An
Overview: Raj Mesthrie (University of Cape Town, South Africa). 12. Creole
Studies and Multilingualism: Pieter Muysken (Radboud University Nijmegen,
the Netherlands). 13. A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation:
Jacques Arends (formerly the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands). 14.
The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis: John Victor Singler (New
York University). 15. The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis: Christine Jourdan
(Concordia University). PART 3: Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic
Explanation:. 16. Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles: Adrienne Bruyn
(Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands). 17. Creoles, Markedness,
and Default Settings: An Appraisal: Alain Kihm (Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique, France). 18. The Nature of Evidence in Explanations
of Pidgin/Creole Genesis: Evidence from Semantic Structure: George Huttar
(Editor of SIL International). 19. Pidgins, Creoles, and Variation: Peter
Patrick (University of Essex, United Kingdom). PART 4: Pidgins/Creoles and
Kindred Languages:. 20. The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of
Pidgin and Creole Studies: Judy Kegl (University of Southern Maine). 21.
Pidgins/Creoles and African American English: Arthur Spears (The City
University of New York). 22. Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean: John
Lipski (Pennsylvania State University). PART 5: Pidgins/Creoles in
Society:. 23. Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse: Geneviève Escure (University
of Minnesota). 24. Pidgins/Creoles and Education: Dennis Craig (formerly
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana). 25. Language Planning in
Pidgins and Creoles: Hubert Devonish (University of the West Indies,
Jamaica). 26. Literary Representations of Creole Languages:
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean: Hélène Buzelin
(Université de Montréal, Canada) and Lise Winer (McGill University,
Canada).

Rezensionen

"This handbook provides a timely overview of a constantly changing and growing field and serves as a handy reference for anyone working on pidgins and creoles or related issues."
-James Walker, York University

"A most informative handbook on pidgin and creole languages. Superbly edited, and written by the preeminent scholars in the field."
-Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine