Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistics and Social Implications (Creole

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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.

“This volume constitutes an excellent collection of articles which explore language contact, change and creoles from a variety of perspectives and also through a broad linguistic spectrum which makes the text a great source of information.”

Cèsar Allegre, Amherst College, in Revista Int. de Ling. IberolAmericana 2(6), 2005

“This volume has been done very well overall. It clearly shows the benefits of stringent editorship and peer reviewing. The work of its authors represents a window into the state-of-the-art in Creole studies and beyond. It should not be missing in any collection with holdings on Creole or contact languages.”

Thomas B. Klein, Georgia Southern University, on Linguist List 16-842, 2005

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
Geneviève 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 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

“This volume constitutes an excellent collection of articles which explore language contact, change and creoles from a variety of perspectives and also through a broad linguistic spectrum which makes the text a great source of information.”
Cèsar Allegre, Amherst College, in Revista Int. de Ling. IberolAmericana 2(6), 2005
“This volume has been done very well overall. It clearly shows the benefits of stringent editorship and peer reviewing. The work of its authors represents a window into the state-of-the-art in Creole studies and beyond. It should not be missing in any collection with holdings on Creole or contact languages.”
Thomas B. Klein, Georgia Southern University, on Linguist List 16-842, 2005