Silvia Kouwenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 706104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Kouwenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Kouwenberg |
| SIGNATURE | KOUWENBERG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7883-2251 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Creolization in Context
We provide a selective overview of the state of pidgin and creole language studies, with a focus on the different ways in which the question of creole genesis—especially of European-lexifier creoles—is approached: from the perspective of the demographics and periodization of the (early) life of the colonies and from the perspective of the role of typological concepts such as analyticity/syntheticity and simplicity/complexity in the mechanisms of …
Nineteenth-Century Creolist Work and Its Reflections on Language and Community
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Arbitrariness and iconicity in total reduplication
This article explores the iconicity of Total Reduplication ( TR ) and considers how iconicity is manifested in the reduplication of object, event, and attribute-denoting forms in Caribbean Creole ( CC ) languages. We argue that TR naturally lends itself to a “more of the same content” interpretation, but that iconicity is nevertheless compromised by restrictions on the eligibility of simplex forms as input for TR, arbitrary gaps in the interpreta…
Dutch Guiana
The first one hundred years of the Dutch presence on the “Wild Coast” of Guiana, beginning with exploratory voyages and establishment of trading networks, and culminating in the establishment of plantation societies in Berbice and Essequibo, forms the historical context for the emergence of the Dutch creole languages of Berbice and Essequibo. This article explores that historical backdrop, focusing on the early plantation colonies, their manageme…
The historical context of creole language emergence in Dutch Guiana
Cet article décrit les rôles qu’ont joués les amérindiens dans les situations de contact où émergèrent deux créoles de base hollandaise : le Berbice Dutch (Berbice, Guyana) et le Skepi Dutch (Essequibo, Guyana). Les amérindiens furent constamment présents dans la phase préformative et formative des deux langues, comme le décrit en détail une esquisse historique des phases initiales de l’exploration de la “ Wild Coast” par les hollandais, suivie d…
Linguistics in the Caribbean
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A Tribute to Norval Smith
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The typology of Caribbean Creole reduplication
Although many aspects of Creole languages remain relatively unexplored, the morphology of Creole languages has been especially neglected. This is largely because it is still widely believed that Creoles have very little in the way of morphology, even compared to an inflection-poor language such as English. Moreover, the morphology that Creoles do have is often assumed to be quite similar from one Creole language to another and is further thought …
Linguistics in the Caribbean
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Creole studies and linguistic typology
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Creole studies and linguistic typology
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Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
The invisible hand in creole genesis
This paper considers the historical context in which Berbice Dutch was formed before turning to the significance of the presence in that language of function words derived from the Eastern Ịjọ substrate. The view that transfer of Eastern Ịjọ grammatical properties took place in the formation of Berbice Dutch, is subjected to detailed scrutiny for tense-mood-aspect marking and negation. Despite similarities, important areas of divergence or discon…
The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
List of Abbreviations. 1 Introduction (Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler). Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles. 2 Atlantic Creole Syntax (Donald Winford). 3 Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability (Miriam Meyerhoff). 4 Pidgin and Creole Morphology (Terry Crowley). 5 Creole Phonology (Norval S. H. Smith). 6 Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles (Peter Bakker). 7 Non-Indo-European Pid…
Echoes of Africa
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Loss in Berbice Dutch Creole negative constructions
This paper examines attrition in the use of negative constructions by the last speakers of Berbice Dutch Creole. It does so by ranging speakers on a proficiency scale that takes as reference point a maximum contemporary level of proficiency, construed as including a system of negative constructions, the surface formatives of which can be reconstructed to the contact situation out of which BD arose, and constraints on the interaction of the scope …
Substrate or Superstrate
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A Grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole
From OV to VO linguistic negotiation in the development of Berbice Dutch creole
Complementizer PA, the Finiteness of its Complements and Some Remarks on Empty Categories in Papiamento
From OV to VO linguistic negotiation in the development of Berbice Dutch creole
Creolization in Context
We provide a selective overview of the state of pidgin and creole language studies, with a focus on the different ways in which the question of creole genesis—especially of European-lexifier creoles—is approached: from the perspective of the demographics and periodization of the (early) life of the colonies and from the perspective of the role of typological concepts such as analyticity/syntheticity and simplicity/complexity in the mechanisms of …
Complementizer PA, the Finiteness of its Complements and Some Remarks on Empty Categories in Papiamento
From OV to VO linguistic negotiation in the development of Berbice Dutch creole
A Grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole
Substrate or Superstrate
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Loss in Berbice Dutch Creole negative constructions
This paper examines attrition in the use of negative constructions by the last speakers of Berbice Dutch Creole. It does so by ranging speakers on a proficiency scale that takes as reference point a maximum contemporary level of proficiency, construed as including a system of negative constructions, the surface formatives of which can be reconstructed to the contact situation out of which BD arose, and constraints on the interaction of the scope …
Echoes of Africa
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The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
List of Abbreviations. 1 Introduction (Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler). Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles. 2 Atlantic Creole Syntax (Donald Winford). 3 Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability (Miriam Meyerhoff). 4 Pidgin and Creole Morphology (Terry Crowley). 5 Creole Phonology (Norval S. H. Smith). 6 Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles (Peter Bakker). 7 Non-Indo-European Pid…
Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
The invisible hand in creole genesis
This paper considers the historical context in which Berbice Dutch was formed before turning to the significance of the presence in that language of function words derived from the Eastern Ịjọ substrate. The view that transfer of Eastern Ịjọ grammatical properties took place in the formation of Berbice Dutch, is subjected to detailed scrutiny for tense-mood-aspect marking and negation. Despite similarities, important areas of divergence or discon…
Creole studies and linguistic typology
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Creole studies and linguistic typology
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Linguistics in the Caribbean
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A Tribute to Norval Smith
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The typology of Caribbean Creole reduplication
Although many aspects of Creole languages remain relatively unexplored, the morphology of Creole languages has been especially neglected. This is largely because it is still widely believed that Creoles have very little in the way of morphology, even compared to an inflection-poor language such as English. Moreover, the morphology that Creoles do have is often assumed to be quite similar from one Creole language to another and is further thought …
Linguistics in the Caribbean
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The historical context of creole language emergence in Dutch Guiana
Cet article décrit les rôles qu’ont joués les amérindiens dans les situations de contact où émergèrent deux créoles de base hollandaise : le Berbice Dutch (Berbice, Guyana) et le Skepi Dutch (Essequibo, Guyana). Les amérindiens furent constamment présents dans la phase préformative et formative des deux langues, comme le décrit en détail une esquisse historique des phases initiales de l’exploration de la “ Wild Coast” par les hollandais, suivie d…
Dutch Guiana
The first one hundred years of the Dutch presence on the “Wild Coast” of Guiana, beginning with exploratory voyages and establishment of trading networks, and culminating in the establishment of plantation societies in Berbice and Essequibo, forms the historical context for the emergence of the Dutch creole languages of Berbice and Essequibo. This article explores that historical backdrop, focusing on the early plantation colonies, their manageme…
Arbitrariness and iconicity in total reduplication
This article explores the iconicity of Total Reduplication ( TR ) and considers how iconicity is manifested in the reduplication of object, event, and attribute-denoting forms in Caribbean Creole ( CC ) languages. We argue that TR naturally lends itself to a “more of the same content” interpretation, but that iconicity is nevertheless compromised by restrictions on the eligibility of simplex forms as input for TR, arbitrary gaps in the interpreta…
Nineteenth-Century Creolist Work and Its Reflections on Language and Community
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Creolization in Context
We provide a selective overview of the state of pidgin and creole language studies, with a focus on the different ways in which the question of creole genesis—especially of European-lexifier creoles—is approached: from the perspective of the demographics and periodization of the (early) life of the colonies and from the perspective of the role of typological concepts such as analyticity/syntheticity and simplicity/complexity in the mechanisms of …
Linguistics (16 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · History (13 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (13 works) · Creole language (11 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Pidgin (4 works)