Overview

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

Full Product Details

Author:   Silvia Kouwenberg (University of the West Indies) ,  John Victor Singler (New York University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.388kg
ISBN:  

9780631229025

ISBN 10:   0631229027
Pages:   704
Publication Date:   14 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii List of Abbreviations xiv 1 Introduction 1 Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles 17 2 Atlantic Creole Syntax 19 Donald Winford 3 Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability 48 Miriam Meyerhoff 4 Pidgin and Creole Morphology 74 Terry Crowley 5 Creole Phonology 98 Norval S. H. Smith 6 Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles 130 Peter Bakker 7 Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles 158 Kees Versteegh Part II Perspectives on Pidgin/creole Genesis 187 8 Pidgins/Creoles, and Second Language Acquisition 189 Jeff Siegel 9 Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis 219 Tonjes Veenstra 10 Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics 242 Sarah G. Thomason 11 Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview 263 Rajend Mesthrie 12 Creole Studies and Multilingualism 287 Pieter Muysken 13 A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation 309 Jacques Arends 14 The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis 332 John Victor Singler 15 The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis 359 Christine Jourdan Part III Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation 383 16 Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles 385 Adrienne Bruyn 17 Creoles, Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal 411 Alain Kihm 18 Semantic Evidence in Pidgin and Creole Genesis 440 George Huttar 19 Pidgins, Creoles, and Variation 461 Peter L. Patrick Part IV Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages 489 20 The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin and Creole Studies 491 Judy Kegl 21 Pidgins/Creoles and African American English 512 Arthur K. Spears 22 Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean 543 John M. Lipski Part V Pidgins/Creoles in Society 565 23 Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse 567 Geneviève Escure 24 Pidgins/Creoles and Education 593 Dennis Craig 25 Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles 615 Hubert Devonish 26 Literary Representations of Creole Languages: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean 637 Hélène Buzelin and Lise Winer Author Index 666 Language Index 677 Subject Index 682

Reviews

"""This handbook provides a timely overview of a constantly changing and growing field and serves as a handy reference for anyone working on pidgins and creoles or related issues."" James Walker, York University ""A most informative handbook on pidgin and creole languages. Superbly edited, and written by the preeminent scholars in the field."" Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine"

This handbook provides a timely overview of a constantly changing and growing field and serves as a handy reference for anyone working on pidgins and creoles or related issues. ?James Walker, York University A most informative handbook on pidgin and creole languages. Superbly edited, and written by the preeminent scholars in the field. ?Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine

This handbook provides a timely overview of a constantly changing and growing field and serves as a handy reference for anyone working on pidgins and creoles or related issues. James Walker, York University A most informative handbook on pidgin and creole languages. Superbly edited, and written by the preeminent scholars in the field. Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine

Author Information

Silvia Kouwenberg is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). Her publications include A Grammar of Berbice Dutch (1994), Papiamentu (with Eric Murray, 1994), and Twice as Meaningful: Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and Other Contact Languages (edited, 2003). John Victor Singler is Professor of Linguistics at New York University. His publications include An Introduction to Liberian English (1981) and Pidgin and Creole Tense-Mood-Aspect Systems (edited, 1990).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions