29.4554, Qs: A Contrastive Approach of Jamaican and Martinican Creole languages, Dr Nicole Arsenec

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Subject: 29.4554, Qs: A Contrastive Approach of Jamaican and Martinican Creole languages, Dr Nicole Arsenec

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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 03:50:10
From: Nicole Arsenec [nicole.arsenec at gmail.com]
Subject: A Contrastive Approach of Jamaican and Martinican Creole languages, Dr Nicole Arsenec

 
Abstract: Constrastive approach of Jamaican and Martinican Creole Languages
Nicole ARSENEC

This contrastive approach was impulsed by Mervyn ALLEYNE (1980) who pointed
out, « Some Similarities of Afro-American » regardless of lexifier, like
serial verbs, topicalization, TMA verbal system...

In a synchronic perspective, the purpose of this research is to establish
structural and functional similarities between Jamaican Creole (JC) based on
English lexicon (CBEL) and Martinican Creole (CM) based on French lexicon
(CBFL) in order to identify distinctive features of Creole Languages.

After a survey of the linguistic fields according to the method to determine a
family of languages of Theophile OBENGA (1993), it becomes obvious that these
specific structures are more than similar in these two Afro-American
languages.

Opposed to flexional languages like English and French, widely spread in West
African languages, these characteristics are functioning in Creole Languages
on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and can be considered as distinctive
features. In this new family of languages, European languages are decisive at
a lexical level, while African languages are essential for phonemic, prosodic,
syllabic, semantic and morphosyntactic structures.

 As I've pointed out a new family of languages uniting Afro-American languages
and Atlantic Creoles, can you accept to classify these creoles as a family of
languages?
<Link: HAL Id : tel-01421684>

Key-words : Synchronic – Functional – Structural - Distinctive features –
Family of Languages
 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Atlantic



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