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Towards A New Model Of Creole Genesis
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Author :John H. McWhorter Publisher :Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN 13 :9780820433127 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (331 download)
Book Synopsis Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis by : John H. McWhorter
Download or read book Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis written by John H. McWhorter and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creolists have established that many processes determine the structure of Caribbean creole languages, including innate linguistic universals, West African retentions, and certain patterns of simplification. Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis presents a method of uniting these strands into a single model of creole genesis. This discussion is primarily illustrated via Saramaccan Creole English, spoken in Suriname and combining elements from English, Portuguese, Dutch, and a range of African languages. An extensive evaluation of Derek Bickerton's Language Bioprogram Hypothesis is also presented. Increasing evidence is offered that Saramaccan and other Caribbean English creoles ultimately trace back to a single pidgin ancestor which emerged on the West African coast.
Book Synopsis Towards a New Model of Genesis by : John Hamilton McWhorter
Download or read book Towards a New Model of Genesis written by John Hamilton McWhorter and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Defining Creole by : John H. McWhorter
Download or read book Defining Creole written by John H. McWhorter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages. The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue. Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as all human languages are, are delineable from older languages as the result of their having come into existence only a few centuries ago. Then adults learn a language under untutored conditions, they abbreviate its structure, focusing upon features vital to communication and shaving away most of the features useless to communication that bedevil those acquiring the language non-natively. When they utilize their rendition of the language consistently enough to create a brand-new one, this new creation naturally evinces evidence of its youth: specifically, a much lower degree of the random accretions typical in older languages, which only develop over vast periods of time. The articles constitute a case for this thesis based on both broad, cross-creole ranges of data and focused expositions referring to single creole languages. The book presents a general case for a theory of language contact and creolization in which not only transfer from source languages but also structural reduction plays a central role, based on facts whose marginality of address in creole studies has arisen from issues sociopolitical as well as scientific. For several decades the very definition of the term creole has been elusive even among creole specialists. This book attempts to forge a path beyond the inter- and intra-disciplinary misunderstandings and stalemates that have resulted from this, and to demonstrate the place that creoles might occupy in other linguistic subfields, including typology, language contact, and syntactic theory.
Book Synopsis L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis by : Claire Lefebvre
Download or read book L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis written by Claire Lefebvre and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers addresses current language contact at a societal or an individual level (Smith; Terrill and Dunn; Bruhn de Garavito and Atoche; Liceras et al.; Muller). The second section focuses on processes characterizing various stages of L2 acquisition and creole genesis: relexification and transfer from the L1 and their role in the initial state (Sprouse; Schwartz; Kouwenberg; Aboh; Ionin). Chapters in the third section discuss processes involved in developing grammars, namely, reanalysis and restructuring (Sanchez; Brousseau and Nikiema; Steele and Brousseau). The final section concentrates on fossilization and the end state (Cornips and Hulk; Montrul; Lardiere). Between them, the chapters cover lexical, morphological, phonological, semantic and syntactic properties of interlanguage grammars and creole grammars.
Book Synopsis Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse by : John R. Rickford
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.
Book Synopsis The Missing Spanish Creoles by : John McWhorter
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.
Book Synopsis Toward a New Model of Genesis by : John Hamilton MacWhorter
Download or read book Toward a New Model of Genesis written by John Hamilton MacWhorter and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Creole Debate by : John H. McWhorter
Download or read book The Creole Debate written by John H. McWhorter and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.
Book Synopsis Deconstructing Creole by : Umberto Ansaldo
Download or read book Deconstructing Creole written by Umberto Ansaldo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deconstructing Creole is a collection of studies aimed at critically assessing the idea of creole languages as a homogeneous structural type with shared and peculiar patterns of genesis. Following up on the critical discussion of notions of 'creole exceptionalism' as historical and ideological constructs, this volume tests the basic assumptions that underlie current attempts to present 'creole structure' as a special type, from typological as well as sociohistorical perspectives. The sum of the findings presented here suggests that careful empirical investigation of input varieties and contact environments can explain the structural output without recourse to an exceptional genesis scenario. Echoing calls to dissolve the notion of 'creolization' as a special diachronic process, this volume proposes that theoretically grounded approaches to the notions of simplicity, complexity, transmission, etc. do not warrant considering so-called 'creole' languages as a special synchronic type.
Book Synopsis Dialectology meets Typology by : Bernd Kortmann
Download or read book Dialectology meets Typology written by Bernd Kortmann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties? What are possible contributions of dialectology to areal typologies and the study of grammaticalization? What are important theoretical and methodological implications of this new type of collaboration in the study of language variation? The 18 contributors, among them many distinguished dialectologists, sociolinguists and typologists, address these and other novel questions on the basis of analyses of the morphology and syntax of a broad range of dialects (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Aryan).
Book Synopsis Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar by : Claire Lefebvre
Download or read book Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar written by Claire Lefebvre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct leveling. The role of these processes is documented by a detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its two major contributing languages, French and Fongbe, to illustrate how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole. The author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development.
Author :Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :0199857636 Total Pages :461 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (998 download)
Book Synopsis The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty by : Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor
Download or read book The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty written by Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.
Book Synopsis The Linguistic Cycle by : Elly van Gelderen
Download or read book The Linguistic Cycle written by Elly van Gelderen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elly van Gelderen examines the linguistic cycle and describes how it offers a unique perspective on the language faculty.
Book Synopsis Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue by : John McWhorter
Download or read book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue written by John McWhorter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. Covering such turning points as the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during the fifth century ad, John McWhorter narrates this colorful evolution with vigor. Drawing on revolutionary genetic and linguistic research as well as a cache of remarkable trivia about the origins of English words and syntax patterns, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue ultimately demonstrates the arbitrary, maddening nature of English— and its ironic simplicity due to its role as a streamlined lingua franca during the early formation of Britain. This is the book that language aficionados worldwide have been waiting for (and no, it’s not a sin to end a sentence with a preposition).
Book Synopsis Losing the Race by : John H. McWhorter
Download or read book Losing the Race written by John H. McWhorter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why "victimhood" is exaggerated and enshrined in African-American families and discusses why these attitudes are destructive to future generations.
Book Synopsis Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics by : Werner Abraham
Download or read book Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics written by Werner Abraham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative survey that covers the linguistic questions of modality and mood, offering a new model for the phenomenon.
Book Synopsis The Acquisition of Creole Languages by : Dany Adone
Download or read book The Acquisition of Creole Languages written by Dany Adone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study into how children acquire Creoles as their first language in the absence of a conventional language model.
