Language Typology and Tonogenesis in Two Atlantic Creoles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19401910 |
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| Authors | Yolanda Rivera-Castillo (University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 281 |
| Publication date | 2002-08-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-2946 • E-ISSN: 2377-1666 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/bls.v28i1.3843 |
| OpenAlex | W2507710373 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper provides evidence of strong typological similarities between the tonal systems of Papiamentu and Saramaccan with the systems of West African languages. These typological similarities constitute the basis for a proposal that there is a genetic affiliation between Papiamentu and Saramaccan with the Kwa and Bantu language families; an affiliation that reaches beyond the accidental lexical borrowing. Since Saramaccan has been classified as an English-based Creole, and Papiamentu as a Romance-based Creole, their similarities indicate that their substrata have a greater significance in Creole genesis than previously recognized
Art · Bantu languages · Creole language · Linguistics · Literature · Romance · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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