Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and StructureCambridge University Press, 05/05/1988 - 280 páginas This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides an up-to-date and readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades. Written for both students and general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics, the book's original perspective will also attract specialists in the field seeking a broad overview of the linguistic relationships among these languages. Creolized, or restructured versions of English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portugese, and other languages arose during European colonial expansion. These resulted in such creoles as Jamaican, Haitian, Papiamentu, and some one hundred others, as well as such semi-creoles as Afrikaans, non-standard Brazilian Portugese, Papiamentu, and American Black English. Scholars have tended to work on particular language varieties in relative isolation, making comparative research into the genesis, development, and structure of creoles difficult. In writing this book, Holm draws on broad studies of many languages to make clear how far-reaching creoles'similarities are and to challenge current linguistic theories on creoles and pidgins. The emphasis of this volume is largely empirical rather than descriptive. Its core is a comparative study of creoles based on European languages in Africa and the Caribbean that demonstrates the striking similarities among the languages in terms of their lexical semantics, phonology, and syntax. A forthcoming volume provides a socio-historic overview of variety development and text examples, with translations, of the restructured languages. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
11 Pidgins | 4 |
12 Creoles | 6 |
13 Other terms | 9 |
14 Scope of the book | 11 |
Theory a historical overview | 13 |
22 Early European expansion | 15 |
23 The eighteenth century | 17 |
433 Mid central vowels | 116 |
434 Low central vowels | 117 |
435 Mid back vowels | 118 |
438 Unrounding of front vowels | 119 |
439 Diphthongs | 120 |
44 Nasal vowels | 121 |
45 Vowel harmony | 124 |
46 Consonants | 125 |
24 The early nineteenth century | 21 |
25 Van Name | 24 |
26 Schuchardt and his contemporaries | 27 |
27 Hesseling and his contemporaries | 35 |
28 Reinecke and his contemporaries | 36 |
29 Hall and Taylor | 42 |
210 Monogenesis | 44 |
211 The creole continuum | 52 |
212 Universalists again | 61 |
213 Substratists again | 65 |
214 Other trends in theory | 68 |
Lexicosemantics | 71 |
31 Pidginization and the lexicon | 72 |
32 European lexical sources | 74 |
321 Survival of archaic usages | 75 |
322 Survival of regional usages | 76 |
323 Nautical usages | 78 |
33 African lexical influence | 79 |
331 African lexical items | 80 |
332 African semantic influence | 82 |
333 African syntactic influence on lexicon | 85 |
334 African calques | 86 |
335 Reduplication | 88 |
34 Other lexical sources | 89 |
341 Portuguese influence | 90 |
342 Adstrate influence | 92 |
35 Morphological changes | 95 |
352 New morpheme combinations | 99 |
353 Coining | 100 |
361 Semantic shift | 101 |
363 Semantic narrowing | 102 |
37 Change of syntactic function | 103 |
Phonology | 105 |
41 Continua | 108 |
421 Aphesis | 109 |
423 Apocope | 110 |
426 Paragogue | 111 |
428 Elision of vowels | 112 |
43 Oral vowels | 113 |
431 High front vowels | 115 |
461 Coarticulated stops | 126 |
462 Prenasalized stops | 127 |
463 Palatalization | 130 |
464 Apicals | 135 |
465 Labials | 136 |
47 Suprasegmentals | 137 |
Syntax | 144 |
51 The verb phrase | 148 |
511 The unmarked verb | 150 |
512 Anterior tense | 151 |
513 Progressive aspect | 154 |
514 Habitual aspect | 157 |
515 Completive aspect | 161 |
516 Irrealis | 164 |
517 Other preverbal marker combinations | 166 |
518 Complementizers | 168 |
519 Negation | 171 |
52 Forms of be | 174 |
521 Equative be | 175 |
522 Adjectival verbs | 176 |
523 Locative be | 177 |
524 Highlighter be | 179 |
53 Serial verbs | 183 |
531 Serial give meaning to for | 184 |
532 Serial say meaning that | 185 |
533 Serial pass meaning than | 188 |
54 The noun phrase | 190 |
542 Number | 193 |
543 Gender | 195 |
545 Pronouns | 201 |
55 Other function words | 205 |
551 Conjunctions | 206 |
552 Prepositions | 207 |
553 Sentencefinal o | 210 |
56 Word order | 211 |
Conclusion | 216 |
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