Creoles, Contact, and Language Change

Linguistic and social implications

Bibliographic Data

ID23769686
AuthorsBettina Migge (0000-0002-3305-7113, Goethe Institute, corresponding author)
EditorsGeneviève Escure (University of Minnesota), Armin Schwegler (University of California, Irvine)
Year2004
Publication date2004-10-13
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCreoles, contact, and language change (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/cll.27
OpenAlexW616083585
ISBN9789027252494
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited11

This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists’ current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax. Some of the contributions make use of phonological analysis while others study language development from the point of view of acquisition. A few papers examine discourse strategies and style, or broader issues of social and ethnic identity. While this array of topics and perspectives is reflective of the diversity of the field, there is also much common ground in that all of the papers adduce solid data corpora to support their analyses. The range of languages analyzed spans the planet, as approximately twenty contact varieties are studied in this volume.

Art · Creole language · Ethnography · Linguistics · Maroon · Pidgin · Politeness · Sociology · Speech community · Vernacular · Anthropology · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology

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