29.4159, Books: Malabar Indo-Portuguese Structure and origins of the verbal system: Krajinović

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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:36:40
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Malabar Indo-Portuguese Structure and origins of the verbal system: Krajinović

 


Title: Malabar Indo-Portuguese Structure and origins of the verbal
system 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Pidgin & Creole Linguistics 20  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LSPCL-20-Malabar-Indo-Portuguese-Structure-and-origins-of-the-verbal-system/en 


Author: Ana Krajinović

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862889099 Pages: 211 Price: Europe EURO 72.80


Abstract:

Malabar Indo-Portuguese is a creole language formed in a situation of language
contact between the Portuguese colonizers and the native Malayalam-speaking
community of the Malabar Coast in the 16th century; nowadays, it is spoken by
a few last speakers in Cannanore. This book contributes to its linguistic
description, which has so far benefited from Schuchardt’s work (Schuchardt,
1882, 1883, 1889a,b) and from recent fieldwork-based descriptions by Cardoso
(2012, 2014a,d,c). By using linguistic data from the corpus of Malabar
Indo-Portuguese (Cardoso, 2006-2015, 2007-2010), this work offers a
description of several structures within the verbal system, such as TMA
marking, copulative constructions, and subordination. Besides the synchronic
description, Malabar Indo-Portuguese structures are also analyzed within a
diachronic and contact-based perspective, through comparison with their
Portuguese etymologies and Malayalam substrate/adstrate influences.

This work shows that the grammatical functions and morphosyntactic structures
within the verbal system have converged with Malayalam on a large scale, while
maintaining semantic links to their Portuguese etymologies. The diachrony of
Malabar Indo-Portuguese is studied in the context of grammaticalization and
language ecology as creole-shaping mechanisms.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Malayalam (mal)

Language Family(ies): Creole


Written In: English  (eng)

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