Norval Smith

Datos Biográficos

ID3842403
NOMBRENorval Smith
NOMBRESNorval
APELLIDOSmith
FIRMASMITH N
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-6628-2635
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAS39
TOTAL COMO AUTOR29
TOTAL COMO EDITOR9
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1971
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
ÍNDICE H4

  • In Memoriam Pieter Muysken

    Open AccessFrans Hinskens, Norval SmithARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2021

    Contains fulltext : 244628.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)

  • Lingua Franca

    Open AccessNorval SmithOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2020

    This entry will concentrate on the original lingua franca that died out around the beginning of the twentieth century in the Mediterranean. In modern linguistic work the term has also been co‐opted to describe other types of language use that shared, or share, some of the characteristics of the original lingua franca

  • Structure of Phonological Representations. Part 1

    Harry Van Der Hulst, Norval SmithBOOKStructure of Phonological…2020

  • Advances in Nonlinear Phonology

    Harry Van Der Hulst, Norval SmithBOOKAdvances in Nonlinear Phonology2019

  • Language and Slavery

    Jacques Arends, Norval Smith et al.BOOKLanguage and Slavery2017Citada por: 2Referencias: 18

    This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts, the author points out the relevance of European settlements prior to colonization by the English in 1651 and concludes that the fo…

  • Surviving the Middle Passage

    Pieter Muysken, Norval SmithBOOKSurviving the Middle Passage2015

  • The early history of Surinam

    Norval SmithCHAPTERSurviving the Middle Passage2015

  • Complex Processes in New Languages

    Enoch O Aboh, Norval SmithBOOKComplex processes in new languages2009

    In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating ‘complex’ structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction between supposedly more complex and less complex languages, how complexity relates to human knowledge of language, and the role of the reduction or increase of complexity in language change and creolization. This book focuses on the latter issue, but the conclusions presented here hold …

  • Complex processes in new languages

    Enoch O Aboh, Norval SmithBOOKComplex processes in new languages2009

  • English-speaking in early Surinam

    Norval SmithCHAPTERGradual creolization2009

    I assess the opportunities of English-learning for slaves in early Surinam. Under the gradualist approach no creole could develop until the population balance had shifted significantly in favour of the slaves. With the population figures given by Arends for the years 1675, 1684 and 1695, I calculate that a third of the population could still be English-speaking in 1684 suggesting no prior creolization. However Sranan has to have creolized before …

  • The Unusual Outcome of a Level-Stress Situation

    Norval Smith, Klaske van LeydenARTICLENOWELE. North-Western European…2007

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  • A dependency-based typology of nasalisation and voicing phenomena

    Open AccessBert Botma, Norval SmithARTICLELinguistics in the Netherlands2007

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  • The Saramaccan implosives

    Norval Smith, Vinije HaaboARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2007

    This paper takes as its starting point the recently discovered fact that Saramaccan contrasts two types of voiced labial and coronal stop, plain and implosive. The plain labials appear to be modern in origin, something which cannot be said about their coronal counterparts. So we reconstruct an earlier situation in Saramaccan in which only one type of labial voiced stop, the implosive, was present, but both types of coronal. The Gbe languages also…

  • Population movements, colonial control and vowel systems

    Norval Smith, Marleen Van De VateCHAPTERStructure of Creole Words2006

  • A dependency account of the fortis–lenis contrast in Cama

    Open AccessBert Botma, Norval SmithARTICLELinguistics in the Netherlands2006

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  • Pidgins and Creoles

    Salikoko S Mufwene, Jacques Arends et al.ARTICLELanguage1997

  • Pidgins and Creoles

    Jacques Arends, Norval Smith et al.BOOKPidgins and Creoles1995

  • Reflexives

    Pieter Muysken, Norval SmithCHAPTERPidgins and Creoles1994

  • Pidgins and Creoles

    Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken et al.BOOKPidgins and Creoles1994

    This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion in the classroom, while Part III: Sketches of Individual Languages (such as Eskimo Pidgin, Haitian, Saramaccan, Shaba Swahili, Fa d'Ambu, Papiamentu, …

  • Saramaccan

    Peter Bakker, Norval Smith et al.CHAPTERPidgins and Creoles1994

  • Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent

    Larry M Hyman, Stephen A Wilson et al.ARTICLELanguage1991Citada por: 1

  • Question words in pidgin and creole languages

    Open AccessPieter Muysken, Norval SmithARTICLELinguistics1990

    This article is concerned with the question of what the study of function words in pidgin and Creole languages can contribute to the study of pidgin and Creole genesis. Four main questions will be discussed: (a) to what extent could substratum languages have made a contribution to the analytical systems in Creoles? (b) do the question words perhaps reflect universal tendencies toward semantic transparency in the Creole languages? (c) what was the…

  • The Ịjọ element in Berbice Dutch

    Open AccessNorval S H Smith, Norval Smith et al.ARTICLELanguage in Society1987Citada por: 5Referencias: 4

    Berbice Dutch is one of two recently rediscovered Dutch-based Creole languages spoken in Guyana. It is spoken in the county of Berbice, which corresponds to the former Dutch colony of Berbice, founded in the early seventeenth century.This language possesses certain features that make it unique in comparison to other European language-based Creoles spoken in the Atlantic region. Because of these unique features, it represents a promising test case…

  • Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis

    Pieter Muysken, Norval SmithBOOKSubstrata versus Universals in…1986

    Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly reflect universal aspects of the human language capacity, and thus Creole genesis involves, then, the stripping away of the accretions of language history…

  • Surviving the Middle Passage

    Pieter C Muysken, Robert Borges et al.BOOKSurviving the Middle Passage

    The relation between the Surinam Creoles and the languages of West Africa, where slaves who created the creoles originated, has been hotly debated. This book argues that the close relationship can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund. It brings in new historical and linguistic evidence for an extremely close relationship between the creoles, the Gbe languages, and Kikongo, where bilingual practices led to new language forms