Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates (Creole Language Library)

This Book Reflects An Ongoing Shift In The Study Of Contact Languages: After A Period Of History-free Universalism, It Directs The Attention To The Individual Historical Circumstances Under Which The Pidgin And Creole Languages Arose. The Contributions Deal With Different Areas Of Language Structure Including Phonology, Morphology, And Syntax, Providing A Wealth Of Structural And Sociohistorical Data That Any Comprehensive Theory Of Contact Languages Will Have To Account For. Each Of The Papers Provides A Thorough Description Of A Structural Phenomenon Against The Background Of The Sociohistorical Contact Situation. The Languages Covered In The Book Are: Guiné-bissau Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawai‘i Creole, Indo-portuguese Creoles, Jamaican Creole, Lingua Franca, North American French, Mauritian Creole, Santomense, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sranan, Surinamese Maroon Creoles, Vincentian Creole, And Zamboangueño Chavacano. Roots of Creole Structures......Page 2 Editorial page ......Page 3 Title page ......Page 4 LCC data ......Page 5 Table of contents......Page 6 List of contributors......Page 8 Standard abbreviations......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 The problem of multiple substrates ......Page 20 The superstrate is not always the lexifier......Page 48 In praise of the cafeteria principle......Page 78 Tense marking and inflectional morphology in Indo-Portuguese creoles......Page 102 Vowel epenthesis and creole syllable structure......Page 142 The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan ......Page 172 Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri......Page 188 On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creole's lexicon......Page 216 Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole......Page 244 A first step towards the analysis of tone in Santomense......Page 272 Balanta, Guiné-Bissau Creole Portuguese and Portuguese......Page 282 Zamboangue o Chavacano and the potentive mode......Page 298 Between contact and internal development......Page 320 The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole......Page 352 A la recherche du “superstrat”......Page 376 Personal name index......Page 404 Language index......Page 410 Part 1. Place index......Page 424 Part 2. Peoples index......Page 427 Subject index......Page 430 Edited By Susanne Michaelis. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.