African Day-Names in Jamaica

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2910024
AutoresDavid Decamp (autor de correspondencia)
Año1967
Volumen43
Número1
Páginas139
Fecha de publicación1967-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/411389
OpenAlexW2333785341
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas2

A system of day-names, indicating the sex and the day of the week on which a child was born, was carried from Africa to Jamaica in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As personal names, they are now obsolete and almost extinct. All fourteen, however, survive as pejorative common nouns, retaining certain syntactic features (e.g. gender), but losing the purely semantic week-day feature. The series of historical changes, conditioned both by social influences and by the syntactic and semantic structure of the system, gives support to the subordination of semantic features to syntactic ones in modern linguistic theory

Genealogy · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Philosophy