The Creolization of Dutch

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ID14860473
AuthorsAdrienne Bruyn (University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), Tonjes Veenstra (0000-0002-9494-3821, University of Amsterdam)
Year1993
Volume8
Issue1
Pages29-80
Publication date1993-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0920-9034 • E-ISSN: 1569-9870
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jpcl.8.1.03bru
OpenAlexW2005304799
LanguageEN
Citations received9

The aim of this article is a systematic investigation of certain grammatical aspects of three languages that came about as by-products of colonial expansion of the Dutch during the seventeenth century: Afrikaans, Negerhollands, and Berbice Dutch. The discussion is centered on three grammatical features that have played an important role either in creolis-tics or in theoretical linguistics: TMA-marking, adpositional phrases, and passive constructions. Since seventeenth-century Dutch is the common lexifier, this language is also taken into account in the overall comparison. It is shown that the three languages related to Dutch form a less homogeneous group than do some of the creoles related to English and French. The main conclusion is that while processes at work during creoli-zation do not have to be uniform and may have different outcomes, the social circumstances existing in the different contact situations constitute a significant factor in the development of the emerging contact languages

Creole language · Creolization · Grammatical category · Grammaticalization · Homogeneous · Language contact · Linguistics · Sociology · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Mathematics · Philosophy

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