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Language contact in Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas : in honor of John V. Singler /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Creole language library ;
v. 53. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Organization of the volume; 2. The sociohistorical matrix of creole genesis; 3. The origin and the nature of pidgin and creole grammars; References; Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar: Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar; 1. Introduction; 2. Slavery on the Slave Coast: The Kingdom of Allada; 3. Creole languages and language change; 4. The recombination of syntactic features: The na-inni code.
- 5. ConclusionAcknowledgements; References; Appendix: Conventions for interlinear glosses; The African diaspora in Latin America: Linguistic contact and consequences; 1. Introduction; 2. The historical presence of creoles in Latin America; 3. The contemporary situation: Vernacular varieties of Spanish and Portuguese; 4. Phonological reductions; 5. Morphosyntactic variation; 6. The problem of explanation; 7. The apparent dearth of creoles in contemporary Latin America; 8. A crucial case: Afro-Bolivian Spanish; 9. Conclusions; References.
- The sociohistorical matrix of creolization and the role children played in this process: The sociohistorical matrix of creolization and the role children played in this process1. Introduction; 2. Early colonial Berbice; 3. African continuities in Berbice Dutch: Lexical evidence; 4. The sociohistorical matrix of creolization; 5. The roles of adults and children in abrupt creolization; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Creole as necessity? Creole as choice?: Evidence from Afrikaans historical sociolinguistics; 1. Introduction: Learning more about language.
- 2. Trudgill's challenge: Who needs identity?3. The trouble with the Afrikaans negation; 4. Iconicity in language: Form and meaning; 5. Ideological work: Shaping the voice of the Afrikaner boer; 6. Ideological practice: Speaking like an Afrikaner boer; 7. Conclusion: Language is
- at least sometimes
- choice; References; Bahamian Creole English: Yesterday, today and tomorrow; 1. Introduction; 2. The Bahamian society; 3. Sociolinguistic history of The Bahamas; 4. Decreolisation and the (post)-creole continuum; 5. Conclusion; References.
- Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora: Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora: Evidence from lesser-known varieties of English1. Introduction; 2. The role of lesser-known varieties of English; 3. Sites of lesser-known English varieties; 4. The comparability of linguistic structures; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Historical separations: Race, class and language in Barbados; 1. Introduction; 2. Perspective on race and class in Barbados; 3. The community; 4. Sociolinguistic variation; 5. The intersection of race and class in Barbados.