new book on creoles

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Forwarded from Linguist-List

 Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications
 Series Title: Creole Language Library 27

 Publication Year: 2004
 Publisher: John Benjamins
     http://www.benjamins.com/


Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CLL%2027;

 Editor: Genevive Escure, University of Minnesota
 Editor: Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine

 Abstract:

   This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three
consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics,
held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001);
and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced
sampling of creolists' current research interests. All of the
contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies
and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of
morphology or syntax. Some of the contributions make use of phonological
analysis while others study language development from the point of view of
acquisition. A few papers examine discourse strategies and style, or
broader issues of social and ethnic identity. While this array of topics
and perspectives is reflective of the diversity of the field, there is
also much common ground in that all of the papers adduce solid data
corpora to support their analyses. The range of languages analyzed spans
the planet, as approximately twenty contact varieties are studied in this
volume.


 Table of contents

 Preface  vii-x

 1. The origins of Macanese reduplication
 Umberto Ansaldo and Stephen Matthews 1-19

 2. Court records as a source of authentic early Sranan
 Margot van den Berg and Jacques Arends 21-34

 3. Garifuna in Belize and Honduras
 Genevive Escure 35-65

 4. The Nova Scotia-Sierra Leone connection: New evidence on an early
 variety of African American Vernacular English in the diaspora
 Magnus Huber 67-95

 5. The development of variable NP plural agreement in a restructured
 African variety of Portuguese
 Alan N. Baxter 97-126

 6. Second language acquisition in creole genesis: The role of
processability
 Fredric W. Field 127-160

 7. OT and the acquisition of Jamaican syllable structure
 Rocky R. Meade 161-188

 8. Double-object constructions in two French-based creoles (Morisyen and
 Seselwa)
 Dany Adone 189-208

 9. Passive voice in Papiamento: A corpus-based study on dialectal
variability
 Eva Martha Eckkrammer 209-219

 10. Tone assignment on lexical items of English and African origin in
Krio
 Malcolm Awadajin Finney 221-236

 11. TMA and the St. Lucian Creole verb phrase
 David B. Frank 237-257

 12. The Limonese calypso as an identity marker
 Anita Herzfeld and David Moskowitz 259-284

 13. The speech event kuutu in the Eastern Maroon community
 Bettina Migge 285-306

 14. Reflexivity in French-based creoles
 Katrin Mutz 307-329

 15. The role of style and identity in the development of Hawaiian Creole
 Sarah J. Roberts 331-350

 Index  351-354