Rachel Selbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 5629420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Selbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Selbach |
| SIGNATURE | SELBACH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Creole onomastics
This article examines naming practices in creole languages and in scholarly discourse, addressing names in and for creole languages. It asks what constitutes a ‘creole name’, how the input languages affect and shape creole onomastics, and when creole serves as a glossonym and when as a class noun for a group of languages. Drawing on examples from diverse creoles, the overview shows that while many names originate from superstrate sources, they of…
On a famous lacuna
Lingua Franca is one of the most famous historical codes of intercultural contact. It is widely regarded as the oldest known European trade pidgin, a Mediterranean contact language that breached the cultural, religious and linguistic divides of Muslims, Christians and Jews, from the Eastern to the Western shores, from the late Middle Ages to the mid-19th century. Its status as the universal language of Mediterranean trade is one of mythical pro…
Gradual creolization
The superstrate is not always the lexifier
The terms superstrate and substrate seem to lose some of their predictive force in the earliest documented European contact language. While Lingua Franca (LF) is best known for its purported origins as a trade pidgin used across all areas of the Mediterranean, the vast majority of actually available LF documents come from slave colonies on North Africa’s “Barbary Coast’’. Here, the social and the linguistic data do not synchronically coincide acc…
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The superstrate is not always the lexifier
The terms superstrate and substrate seem to lose some of their predictive force in the earliest documented European contact language. While Lingua Franca (LF) is best known for its purported origins as a trade pidgin used across all areas of the Mediterranean, the vast majority of actually available LF documents come from slave colonies on North Africa’s “Barbary Coast’’. Here, the social and the linguistic data do not synchronically coincide acc…
Gradual creolization
On a famous lacuna
Lingua Franca is one of the most famous historical codes of intercultural contact. It is widely regarded as the oldest known European trade pidgin, a Mediterranean contact language that breached the cultural, religious and linguistic divides of Muslims, Christians and Jews, from the Eastern to the Western shores, from the late Middle Ages to the mid-19th century. Its status as the universal language of Mediterranean trade is one of mythical pro…
Creole onomastics
This article examines naming practices in creole languages and in scholarly discourse, addressing names in and for creole languages. It asks what constitutes a ‘creole name’, how the input languages affect and shape creole onomastics, and when creole serves as a glossonym and when as a class noun for a group of languages. Drawing on examples from diverse creoles, the overview shows that while many names originate from superstrate sources, they of…
Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Creole language (2 works) · Lingua franca (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Categorization (1 work) · Creole dialects (1 work)