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The Story of Papiamentu

Author : Gary C. Fouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Papiamentu written by Gary C. Fouse and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Papiamentu is a non-linguistic history of the creole language, Papiamentu, which is spoken in Cura ao, Aruba and Bonaire. Papiamentu is a Spanish-based creole which most believe to have originated in the 17th century. The exact origin of Papiamentu is in dispute, and this text discusses whether it is the result of the Spanish of explorers mixing with the language of the local Indians, or if it originated with Portuguese slavers in Africa. Also discussed are the activities of the Portuguese explorers and slavers in Africa, the later activities of the Dutch slavers, the history of slavery in Cura ao, the oral and written development of Papiamentu, and the Sephardic Jewish community of Cura ao and their contributions to the development of Papiamentu.

Origins of a Creole

Author : Bart Jacobs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1614511071
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Origins of a Creole written by Bart Jacobs and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. In the literature on the issue, widely diverging hypotheses have been advanced, but scholars have not come close to a consensus. The present study casts new and long-lasting light on the issue, putting forward compelling interdisciplinary evidence that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following the trans-Atlantic transfer of native speakers to Curaçao in the latter half of the 17th century, the Portuguese-based proto-variety underwent a far-reaching process of relexification towards Spanish, affecting the basic vocabulary while leaving intact the original phonology, morphology, and syntax. Papiamentu is thus shown to constitute a case of 'language contact reduplicated' in that a creole underwent a second significant restructuring process (relexification). These explicit claims and their rigorous underpinning will set standards for both the study of Papiamentu and creole studies at large and will be received with great interest in the wider field of contact linguistics.

Valorization of Papiamento

Author : Joyce Lomena Pereira
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789990469417
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Valorization of Papiamento written by Joyce Lomena Pereira and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tambú

Author : Nanette de Jong
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253356547
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Tambú written by Nanette de Jong and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As contemporary Tambú music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of Tambú, Nanette de Jong discovers its variegated history and uncovers its multiple and even contradictory origins. De Jong recounts the personal stories and experiences of Afro-Curaçaoans as they perform Tambu-some who complain of its violence and low-class attraction and others who champion Tambú as a powerful tool of collective memory as well as a way to imagine the future.

Four English Vocabularies to Spell

Author : Melvin J. Hoffman
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761827351
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Four English Vocabularies to Spell written by Melvin J. Hoffman and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four English Vocabularies to Spell, written in a clear, conversational style, posits that the English language has four distinct yet interconnected systems for spelling. Author Melvin J. Hoffman proposes a new spelling pedagogy through identifying the major characteristics and separate spelling strategies of each of the four spelling systems.

The Missing Spanish Creoles

Author : John McWhorter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520219996
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Missing Spanish Creoles written by John McWhorter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-07-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial new analysis of the development of New World creole languages among slaves. Mc Whorter makes a vast amount of new data available in his book, and posits that New World creole languages developed in West Africa, not on the plantations in the New World.

The House of Six Doors

Author : Patricia Selbert
Publisher : Publishing by the Seas
ISBN 13 : 0983338132
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The House of Six Doors written by Patricia Selbert and published by Publishing by the Seas. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st Runner Up-Eric Hoffer Award-General Fiction 2011 1st Runner Up-San Francisco Book Festival-Teenage Category 2011 Mama takes thirteen-year-old Serena and her sister to the US in search of fortune, leaving behind their multicultural family, stability, and the colors of the Caribbean. After driving from Miami to Hollywood, their money and luck run out and a 1963 Ford Galaxie becomes their first American home. Guided by the memory of her native Cura ao and the words of her wise grandmother, Serena confronts unimagined challenges and grows up quickly. What gifts will this new country bring, and at what price? "Intimate, at times lyrical, charged with pain and wonder, laughter and perennial hope, The House of Six Doors is terrific storytelling." Olga Rojer, Associate Professor, American University, Washington DC "An honest tale of love, acceptance, and American dreams." --El Mundo If you feel as though the circumstances of your life are against you and you wonder whether this will ever change, this is a story that will fill you with hope. --David Robert Ord, author, "Lessons in Loving, A Journey into the Heart" The book is about affairs of the heart, clashing cultures, courage and how we each deal differently with love and pain. ...there is a Hemingwayesque type of reportage to it it 's satisfying. --Michael Bowker, author, Winning the Battle Within

Creolization and Contraband

Author : Linda M. Rupert
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343056
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Creolization and Contraband written by Linda M. Rupert and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVWhen CuraÃ§ao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and CuraÃ§ao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas. The island's main city, Willemstad, had a non-Dutch majority composed largely of free blacks, urban slaves, and Sephardic Jews, who communicated across ethnic divisions in a new creole language called Papiamentu. For Linda M. Rupert, the emergence of this creole language was one of the two defining phenomena that gave shape to early modern CuraÃ§ao. The other was smuggling. Both developments, she argues, were informal adaptations to life in a place that was at once polyglot and regimented. They were the sort of improvisations that occurred wherever expanding European empires thrust different peoples together. Creolization and Contraband uses the history of CuraÃ§ao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early modern world. Rupert argues that by breaking through multiple barriers, smuggling opened particularly rich opportunities for cross-cultural and interethnic interaction. Far from marginal, these extra-official exchanges were the very building blocks of colonial society./div

Jewish Languages from A to Z

Author : Aaron D. Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351043439
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Languages from A to Z written by Aaron D. Rubin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Languages from A to Z provides an engaging and enjoyable overview of the rich variety of languages spoken and written by Jews over the past three thousand years. The book covers more than 50 different languages and language varieties. These include not only well-known Jewish languages like Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino, but also more exotic languages like Chinese, Esperanto, Malayalam, and Zulu, all of which have a fascinating Jewish story to be told. Each chapter presents the special features of the language variety in question, a discussion of the history of the associated Jewish community, and some examples of literature and other texts produced in it. The book thus takes readers on a stimulating voyage around the Jewish world, from ancient Babylonia to 21st-century New York, via such diverse locations as Tajikistan, South Africa, and the Caribbean. The chapters are accompanied by numerous full-colour photographs of the literary treasures produced by Jewish language-speaking communities, from ancient stone inscriptions to medieval illuminated manuscripts to contemporary novels and newspapers. This comprehensive survey of Jewish languages is designed to be accessible to all readers with an interest in languages or history, regardless of their background—no prior knowledge of linguistics or Jewish history is assumed.

An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles

Author : John Holm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521585811
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles written by John Holm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.

The Story of Spanish

Author : Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312656025
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Spanish written by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the origins and evolution of the Spanish language, covering Hispania's Vulgar Latin of 800 AD, the language's development through the age of Queen Isabella and the rise of Spanish in the Americas.

Double Play

Author : Frank Martinus Arion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571194216
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Double Play written by Frank Martinus Arion and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marathon game of dominoes, lasting from early morning to dusk, and involving four men for whom the game is a trigger for social, political and sexual rivalries against a background of colonial unrest. A complacent bailiff and his feckless taxi-driver partner are deserted by their wives for a mixture of personal and idealistic reasons, and the resulting turmoil leads on to murder and suicide as the tensions work themselves out. As well as being a novel of character, Double Play offers a powerful picture of colonial and attitudes in the mid-twentieth century.

Semantic Extension, Subjectification, and Verbalization

Author : Mika Shindo
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761843276
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Semantic Extension, Subjectification, and Verbalization written by Mika Shindo and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mika Shindo's Semantic Extension, Subjectification, and Verbalization focuses on semantic extensions of sensory adjectives originating in perception. The aims of this book are to provide systematic accounts of semantic extensions of sensory adjectives from a cognitive perspective, and to document the validity of an empirical approach, using panchronic and corpus-based methods. This cognitive and usage-based empirical study uncovers cognitive mechanisms underlying linguistic phenomena, since expressions related to perception originally describe the most fundamental human experiences that are frequently utilized for conceptualizing abstract entities, and adjectives especially reflect human construals of situations. This study reveals that each word's meanings extend in a manner peculiarly restricted by its original cognitive characteristics, firmly rooted in everyday bodily experiences, and that this crucially influences its syntactic structures as well. At the same time, it is a ground-breaking demonstration of the power of computerized corpus research.

Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Development

Author : Carol Blackshire-Belay
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819191823
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (918 download)

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Book Synopsis Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Development by : Carol Blackshire-Belay

Download or read book Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Development written by Carol Blackshire-Belay and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most updated discussion of the most important issues facing students, scholars, and researchers in second language acquisition research and development. Contents: Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Development: An Introduction, Carol A. Blackshire-Belay; Section 1: Language Development and Transfer. Native Language Transfer and Universal Simplification, Robin Sabino; Aspect Transferability (Or: What Gets Lost in the Translation-and Why?), Terence Odlin; Creole Verb Serialization: Transfer or Spontaneity? Frank Byrne; Section 2: Learner Variables in Second Language Acquisition. Contexts for Second Language Acquisition, Elsa Lattey; Language Acquisition, Biography and Bilingualism, Ulrich Steinmuller; Acquisition of Japanese by American Businessmen in Tokyo: How Much and Why? Yoshiko Matsumoto; Section 3: Issues in Interlanguage Development. Abrupt Restructuring Versus Gradual Acquisition, Hanna Pishwa; Variability in Grammatical Analysis: On Recognizing Verbal Markers in Foreign Workers' German, Carol A. Blackshire-Belay; Sketch of an Interlanguage Rule System: Advanced Nonnative German Gender Assignment, Joe Salmons.

Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse

Author : John R. Rickford
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027299498
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse written by John R. Rickford and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come from English, French and Spanish lexical bases and from places as far apart as Africa, Australia, Hawaii, and the Caribbean. Editors Rickford and Romaine introduce each of the papers and provide a biography and bibliography of Sato. A short story and poems in Hawaiian Creole, Sato’s native language and the variety which was the focus of her research and writing, round out the collection.

A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries

Author : Albert James Arnold
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027234483
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries written by Albert James Arnold and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists. Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume. The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugar's Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.

Bastard Tongues

Author : Derek Bickerton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429930306
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Bastard Tongues written by Derek Bickerton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where historical accidents have made normal transmission almost impossible. The story focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all—Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. The story is told by Derek Bickerton, who has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. A published novelist, Bickerton (once described as "part scholar, part swashbuckling man of action") does not present his findings in the usual dry academic manner. Instead, you become a companion on his journey of discovery. You learn things as he learned them, share his disappointments and triumphs, explore the exotic locales where he worked, and meet the colorful characters he encountered along the way. The result is a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer, appealing to anyone who has ever wondered how languages grow or what it's like to search the world for new knowledge.