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Title

Atlantic meets Pacific : a global view of Pidginization and Creolization (selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics) / edited by Francis Byrne and John Holm.

Publication

Amsterdam : Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Byrne, Francis
• Holm, John A.
• Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics

Description

ix, 465 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

For review see: Peter Bakker, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 1 & 2 (1996); p. 190-192.

Series Statement

Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 11

Uniform Title

Creole language library v. 11.

Subject

• Pidgin languages
• Creole dialects
• Languages in contact

Genre/Form

Texts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: Perspectives on the Atlantic and Pacific... and Beyond / Francis Byrne and John Holm -- Sect. 1. Phonology -- Latent Intervocalic Liquids in Aluku: Links to the Phonological Past of a Maroon Creole / Kenneth M. Bilby -- On Onsets: Explaining Negerhollands Initial Clusters / Robin Sabino -- Sect. 2. Morphology & Syntax -- Complementizers & Prepositions -- A Bantu Model for the Seychellois pour-dire Complementizer / Charles Gilman -- Polysemic Functionality of Prepositions in Pidgins and Creoles: The Case of fo in Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin / Charles C. Mann -- Empty Categories -- Is Haitian Creole a Pro-Drop Language? / Michel Frederic DeGraff -- Null Subject in Mauritian Creole and the Pro-Drop Parameter / Anand Syea -- Pronominals -- The Mauritian Creole lekor Reflexive: Substrate Influence on the Target-Location Parameter / Guy Carden -- Cliticization of Pronouns in Berbice Dutch and Eastern Ijo / Silvia Kouwenberg -- Are There Possessive Pronouns in Atlantic Creoles? / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- Subject Pronouns and Person/Number in Palenquero / Armin Schwegler -- Serialization -- Are Ndjuka Comparative Markers Verbs? / George Huttar and Evert Koanting -- Why Serial Verb Constructions? Neither Bioprogram nor Substrate! / Eric Schiller -- Directional Serial Verb Constructions in Caribbean English Creoles / Donald Winford -- Tense, Modality, Aspect -- A Few Observations on the Creole Aspectual Marker ta and Some Implications for Finiteness / Francis Byrne and Alexander Caskey
• Origin and Development of ta in Afro-Hispanic Creoles / John M. Lipski -- Creole Aspect and Morphological Typology / Stephen Matthews -- Subjunctive Mood in Papiamentu / Philippe Maurer -- The Decline of Predicate Marking in Tok Pisin / Suzanne Romaine -- Stem and So-Called Anterior Verb Forms in Haitian Creole / Arthur K. Spears -- Sect. 3. Social Concerns -- The Parallel Continuum Model for Suriname: A Preliminary Study / Maureen Healy -- Haitian Creole as the Official Language in Education and in the Media: The Effects on Structure, Lexicon and Status / Kate Howe -- Pidgins and Creoles in Education in Australia and the Southwest Pacific / Jeff Siegel -- Is Tok Pisin a Threat to Sare? / Kenneth M. Sumbuk -- Sect. 4. Pidgins & Pidginization -- A Contribution by an Old Creole to the Origins of Pidgin Portuguese / Joseph Clancy Clements -- The Transitivizer and Pidgin Chronology / J. L. Dillard -- Tok pisin I Kamap Pisin Gen? Is Tok Pisin Repidginizing? / John Holm and Christopher Kepiou -- Documenting the Papian-Based Pidgins of Insular New Guinea / Jeffrey P. Williams -- Sect. 5. Creoles & Creolization -- Towards a Gradualist Model of Creolization / Jacques Arends -- The Genesis of Portuguese Creole in Africa / Hildo Honorio do Couto -- The Transmission of Creole Languages / Alexander Hull -- African vs. Austronesian Substrate Influence on the Spanish-Based Creoles / Gerardo A. Lorenzino -- Antillean Creole on St. Barthelemy / Julianne Maher
• Hesseling and Van Ginneken on Language Contact, Variation, and Creolization / Peter A. Slomanson -- Sect. 6. Other Contact-Induced Phenomena -- Foreign Workers' German: Is It a Pidgin? / Carol Blackshire-Belay -- Shaba Swahili and the Processes of Linguistic Contact / Andre Mwamba Kapanga -- Learning Pidgin English Through Chinese Characters / Dingxu Shi.

ISBN

1556191650 (alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^92037121^

OCLC

• 26855562
• SCSB-13429592

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library