Phonology and morphology of Creole languages : [collection of 17 papers originally presented at the "International Workshop on the Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages" held at the University of Siegen, August 22-24, 2001

Until very recently, phonology and morphology have been neglected areas in the study of creole languages. This collection of articles presents intriguing data and new analyses from a wide range of creoles that call into question traditional claims about the nature of the phonological and morphological systems of these languages and give crucial insights into one of the major questions of creole studies, i.e. the question of how these languages and their grammars come about. The volume is organized into 5 sections, each focusing on particular aspects of the respective subsystems: >Segments and syllables Stress, tone and intonation Morphophonology Derivational morphology InflectionsimplicityTonjes Veenstra , What verbal morphology can tell us about creole genesis: the case of French-related creoles. - Marlyse Baptista , Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and creoles: a comparative study. - Alain Kihm , Inflectional categories in creole languages. Preface Introduction Section 1: Segments and syllables Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked A new look at nasalization in Haitian Creole Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole Rules vs. analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan New evidence from the past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize? That is the question Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense Section 2: Stress, tone and intonation The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values African American English suprasegmentals: A study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States Section 3: Morphophonology The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication Syllable structure and lexical markedness in creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere Section 4: Derivational morphology Early 18th century Sranan -man Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole) The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin and the notion of ‘simplicity’ in pidgin and creole languages: What happens to morphology under contact? Section 5: Inflectional morphology What verbal morphology can tell us about creole genesis: the case of French-related creoles Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and creoles: A comparative study Inflectional categories in creole languages Subject Index Language Index Author Index Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory. Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) trägt wesentlich zur aktuellen linguistischen Theoriebildung im Bereich der allgemeinen und einzelsprachlichen Linguistik bei. Veröffentlicht werden hochwertige Arbeiten, die aktuelle Fragestellungen bearbeiten und die Entwicklung der Sprachwissenschaft, synchron oder diachron, empirisch oder theoretisch orientiert, vorantreiben The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues in synchrony and diachrony, theoretically or empirically oriented. Edited By Ingo Plag. Papers Presented At The International Workshop On The Phonology And Morphology Of Creole Languages, University Of Siegen, August 22-24,2001.