Alain Kihm
Biographic Data
| ID | 3671044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alain Kihm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alain |
| FAMILY NAME | Kihm |
| SIGNATURE | KIHM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | CNRS, Paris |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9190-2258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Noms d’agent et d’instrument en haïtien
Le présent travail consiste en une étude préliminaire des noms d’agent et d’instrument haïtiens à finale -è (/ɛ/), -e (/e/) ou -ez (/ez/), liés pour partie à des équivalents français en ‐eur, moyennant deux changements phonétiques : /R/ → ∅ en coda syllabique , /œ/ → /ɛ/. On les nommera désormais des « noms d’effecteur complexes » (NEC). L’étude se fonde sur la compulsation du dictionnaire de Valdman et al. (2007), riche de 30 000 entrées, dont o…
Les constructions comparatives du kriol (créole portugais de Guinée-Bissau et Casamance)
Selon la typologie de Dixon (2008), les constructions comparatives de supériorité du kriol (créole portugais de Guinée-Bissau et Casamance) paraissent relever de deux types en variation sociolinguistique (dont cet article n’examine pas les tenants). Elles peuvent instancier le type A1 du portugais, tel que le paramètre de comparaison est exprimé par un adjectif prédiqué du comparé et modifié par un opérateur (indice) « plus » (>), et l’étalon de …
Língua de Preto , the Basic Variety at the root of West African Portuguese Creoles
Língua de Preto falar Guiné In the first part of the study (sections 1–4), we substantiate our claim that such literary representations are indeed reliable renditions of the linguistic medium African slaves in Portugal actually used in their interactions with the white population and among themselves. We propose a historical scenario to account for the ‘return’ of LdP to Africa, i.e. Senegambia, where it soon became the lingua franca of trade bet…
Plural formation in Nubi and Arabic
Nubi is an Arabic-related Creole spoken in Uganda and Kenya. It evolved during the 19th century from a pidginized Arabic used among enslaved soldiers of the Egyptian army occupying Sudan. Untypically for a creolized language, Nubi appears to be more complex than its lexifier Egyptian/Sudanese Arabic (E/SA) as far as plural formation is concerned, as it includes opaque word classes not present in the lexifier. The comparison is carried out from a …
Pidgin-creoles as a scattered sprachbund
That creole languages resemble each other beyond the diversity of their lexifiers and formative environments is a fact. Similarity should not be overstated, however, as creole languages also differ from each other in important ways. Hence the fundamental issues of creole studies: why are Creoles similar and what makes them different? What kind of a language group do they constitute? A genetic family they certainly are not, nor are they a typologi…
Nibbling is Not Many Bitings in Italian and French
Nonsegmental Concatenation
Les pluriels internes de l'arabe
Langues créoles et origine du langage
Creole languages are sometimes considered a "laboratory" where language genesis could be observed in vivo. One reason for this belief is that Creoles are the only natural languages now extant, the emergence of which can be dated and localized with some precision because (i) it is recent (a century for some); (ii) it presents (or seems to present) the characters of a "catastrophe" as opposed to the continuous process of change whereby "old" langua…
L'adjectif en portugais et en kriyol
Alain Kjhm : The adjective in Portugese and in Kriyol : A study in comparative syntax The pre-theoretical notion "adjective" is described in terms of a combination of features as defined in Chomsky (1970), Jackendoff (1977) etc. Adjectives in Portugese, be they preposed or postposed, are shown to be lexical items that combine the features [+N] and [uV]. They are inserted in the Specifier of NP, bearing overt or non overt agreement features, and t…
Kriyol Syntax
This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole which is widely spoken as a first language in Guinea-Bissau. The study focuses on one variety, 'central Kriyol', and its main aim is to present a complete description of the grammar of the language. The theoretical framework for the syntactic analysis is purposely eclectic but relies primarily on Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and ample attention is paid to the cognitive or semantic dimension…
Tayo, The Strange Bird from New Caledonia
According to the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis, the core grammars of all "real" creoles should be alike to a significant degree. Real creoles are then defined as those creoles that were born on plantations, as opposed to those that appeared in so-called fort situations, that is, around trading posts and the like. The validity of the hypothesis depends on the precise characterization of what counts as a plantation situation, which is by no means …
Créole ou dialecte
Labov has studied Black English within the context of his question, « What makes a linguistic community ? » He establishes two important points : some constructions and some distributions in Black English are related to Creole grammar ; Black and White English are two distinct language communities and they are becoming more and more divergent. The Black linguistic community is evolving its own way
Les constructions causatives en kriyol
Complementizer, Verb, or Both? Kriyol Kuma
So-called "pseudo-complementizers," i.e., complementizers that are homophonous with a verb meaning 'say', are a widespread feature among creole (and some noncreole) languages. Kriyol kuma belongs to this category. The homophony thesis is criticized, and it is argued that kuma is a verb in all of its uses. When in a Comp-like position, it is analyzed as a gerund in an intermediate clause that is a matrix for the lowest clause. Because of its lexic…
Lexical Conflation as a Basis for Relexification
Substratal influences as an explanation for creolization (and language change generally) often fail to convince for one major reason, namely that, in most cases, the possible substratum for a given creole language is now separated from the site where creolization took place by a wide historical and geographical gap. This, for example, is the case of the West African languages vis-à-vis the Caribbean Creoles
Nasality in Kriol
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La maturité des études créoles
A. Kihm - Creole Studies' Corning of Age. After a century of existence, Creole studies are fmally reaching maturity, becoming a recognized, as opposed to self-proclaimed, discipline, with a fair amount of inner consensus as to the basic issues which delineate its identity. Evidence of this is the recent publication of a few books which achieve the format of real manuals addressed to a wider audience than just the practitioners of the field. Peter…
La situation linguistique en Casamance et Guinée-Bissau
A. Kihm-Linguistic Situation in Casamance and Guine-Bissau. A sketch of the different social positions of Portuguese Creole in Senegal-where it is not a lingua franca but rather the language of one specifie group-and Guine-Bissau where its situation is far closer to that of 'classical' creoles and pidgins. The second part deals with the theoretical and practical problems encountered in the author's attempt to write a modem linguistic description …
La situation linguistique en Casamance et Guinée-Bissau
A. Kihm-Linguistic Situation in Casamance and Guine-Bissau. A sketch of the different social positions of Portuguese Creole in Senegal-where it is not a lingua franca but rather the language of one specifie group-and Guine-Bissau where its situation is far closer to that of 'classical' creoles and pidgins. The second part deals with the theoretical and practical problems encountered in the author's attempt to write a modem linguistic description …
Nasality in Kriol
Preview this article: Nasality in Kriol: The Marked Case?, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jpcl.1.1.06kih-1.gif
La maturité des études créoles
A. Kihm - Creole Studies' Corning of Age. After a century of existence, Creole studies are fmally reaching maturity, becoming a recognized, as opposed to self-proclaimed, discipline, with a fair amount of inner consensus as to the basic issues which delineate its identity. Evidence of this is the recent publication of a few books which achieve the format of real manuals addressed to a wider audience than just the practitioners of the field. Peter…
Lexical Conflation as a Basis for Relexification
Substratal influences as an explanation for creolization (and language change generally) often fail to convince for one major reason, namely that, in most cases, the possible substratum for a given creole language is now separated from the site where creolization took place by a wide historical and geographical gap. This, for example, is the case of the West African languages vis-à-vis the Caribbean Creoles
Complementizer, Verb, or Both? Kriyol Kuma
So-called "pseudo-complementizers," i.e., complementizers that are homophonous with a verb meaning 'say', are a widespread feature among creole (and some noncreole) languages. Kriyol kuma belongs to this category. The homophony thesis is criticized, and it is argued that kuma is a verb in all of its uses. When in a Comp-like position, it is analyzed as a gerund in an intermediate clause that is a matrix for the lowest clause. Because of its lexic…
Les constructions causatives en kriyol
Créole ou dialecte
Labov has studied Black English within the context of his question, « What makes a linguistic community ? » He establishes two important points : some constructions and some distributions in Black English are related to Creole grammar ; Black and White English are two distinct language communities and they are becoming more and more divergent. The Black linguistic community is evolving its own way
Tayo, The Strange Bird from New Caledonia
According to the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis, the core grammars of all "real" creoles should be alike to a significant degree. Real creoles are then defined as those creoles that were born on plantations, as opposed to those that appeared in so-called fort situations, that is, around trading posts and the like. The validity of the hypothesis depends on the precise characterization of what counts as a plantation situation, which is by no means …
Kriyol Syntax
This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole which is widely spoken as a first language in Guinea-Bissau. The study focuses on one variety, 'central Kriyol', and its main aim is to present a complete description of the grammar of the language. The theoretical framework for the syntactic analysis is purposely eclectic but relies primarily on Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and ample attention is paid to the cognitive or semantic dimension…
L'adjectif en portugais et en kriyol
Alain Kjhm : The adjective in Portugese and in Kriyol : A study in comparative syntax The pre-theoretical notion "adjective" is described in terms of a combination of features as defined in Chomsky (1970), Jackendoff (1977) etc. Adjectives in Portugese, be they preposed or postposed, are shown to be lexical items that combine the features [+N] and [uV]. They are inserted in the Specifier of NP, bearing overt or non overt agreement features, and t…
Langues créoles et origine du langage
Creole languages are sometimes considered a "laboratory" where language genesis could be observed in vivo. One reason for this belief is that Creoles are the only natural languages now extant, the emergence of which can be dated and localized with some precision because (i) it is recent (a century for some); (ii) it presents (or seems to present) the characters of a "catastrophe" as opposed to the continuous process of change whereby "old" langua…
Les pluriels internes de l'arabe
Nonsegmental Concatenation
Nibbling is Not Many Bitings in Italian and French
Plural formation in Nubi and Arabic
Nubi is an Arabic-related Creole spoken in Uganda and Kenya. It evolved during the 19th century from a pidginized Arabic used among enslaved soldiers of the Egyptian army occupying Sudan. Untypically for a creolized language, Nubi appears to be more complex than its lexifier Egyptian/Sudanese Arabic (E/SA) as far as plural formation is concerned, as it includes opaque word classes not present in the lexifier. The comparison is carried out from a …
Pidgin-creoles as a scattered sprachbund
That creole languages resemble each other beyond the diversity of their lexifiers and formative environments is a fact. Similarity should not be overstated, however, as creole languages also differ from each other in important ways. Hence the fundamental issues of creole studies: why are Creoles similar and what makes them different? What kind of a language group do they constitute? A genetic family they certainly are not, nor are they a typologi…
Língua de Preto , the Basic Variety at the root of West African Portuguese Creoles
Língua de Preto falar Guiné In the first part of the study (sections 1–4), we substantiate our claim that such literary representations are indeed reliable renditions of the linguistic medium African slaves in Portugal actually used in their interactions with the white population and among themselves. We propose a historical scenario to account for the ‘return’ of LdP to Africa, i.e. Senegambia, where it soon became the lingua franca of trade bet…
Les constructions comparatives du kriol (créole portugais de Guinée-Bissau et Casamance)
Selon la typologie de Dixon (2008), les constructions comparatives de supériorité du kriol (créole portugais de Guinée-Bissau et Casamance) paraissent relever de deux types en variation sociolinguistique (dont cet article n’examine pas les tenants). Elles peuvent instancier le type A1 du portugais, tel que le paramètre de comparaison est exprimé par un adjectif prédiqué du comparé et modifié par un opérateur (indice) « plus » (>), et l’étalon de …
Noms d’agent et d’instrument en haïtien
Le présent travail consiste en une étude préliminaire des noms d’agent et d’instrument haïtiens à finale -è (/ɛ/), -e (/e/) ou -ez (/ez/), liés pour partie à des équivalents français en ‐eur, moyennant deux changements phonétiques : /R/ → ∅ en coda syllabique , /œ/ → /ɛ/. On les nommera désormais des « noms d’effecteur complexes » (NEC). L’étude se fonde sur la compulsation du dictionnaire de Valdman et al. (2007), riche de 30 000 entrées, dont o…
Philosophy (17 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works) · History (10 works) · Creole language (9 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (8 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (6 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (6 works)