Chabacano and Luso-Asian creoles

Coincidences or connections

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ID14860537
AuthorsEduardo Tobar Delgado (Universidade de Vigo, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume37
Issue2
Pages321-356
Publication date2022-11-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
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.00097.tob
OpenAlexW4308485622
LanguageEN
References cited33

This study presents the most comprehensive inventory of lexical similarities between Chabacano and Luso-Asian creoles to date. Certain formal similarities, especially regarding function words, have not gone unnoticed in the past, but for the most part have been treated as coincidences. Less attention has been paid to cases of parallel formal and semantic innovation involving content words. Taken together, these data suggest a non-coincidental lexical component shared between Luso-Asian creoles and the multi-directional propagation of features across Ibero-Asian creoles. This notion is further supported if we consider the well-known cultural, commercial and demographic connections between the Philippines and the Portuguese colonies in Asia. At the individual level, discarding a Spanish etymology in favor of a Portuguese one is a very problematic endeavor that often leads to inconclusiveness. However, we argue that the sheer number of shared retentions and innovations presented in this study can only be accounted for by factoring in some degree of language contact. Luso-Asian elements must have seeped into Chabacano at the time of its genesis and at later stages

Biology · Etymology · Evolutionary biology · Factoring · Function (biology · Linguistics · Portuguese · Sociology · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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