Development and Structures of Creole Languages

Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton

Editors

Francis Byrne

Thom Huebner

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ISBN 9789027252296 (Eur) | EUR 105.00

ISBN 9781556191626 (USA) | USD 158.00

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This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work. While the papers make independent thematic contributions, they also discuss, augment, present alternatives to, or are inspired in some way by Bickerton's seminal ideas or penetrating analyses. The book is organized into 5 sections, each a reflection of a major research period in Bickerton's career: Section 1: Identifying Creoles; Section 2: Language Variation; Section 3: Creole Processes; Section 4: Creole Syntax and Semantics; Section 5: Serial Verbs.

[Creole Language Library, 9] 1991. x, 222 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.9

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contents	ix
Introduction: Innovation and Excellence within a Scholary Tradition Francis Byrne	1
1. Identifying Creoles
St Helena English Ian F. Hancock	17
American Indian English: A Phylogenetic Dilemma H. Guillermo Bartelt	29
2. Language Variation
Style, Status, Change: Three Sociolinguistic Axioms Dennis R. Preston	43
Using the Future o Explain the Past Gillian Sankoff	61
Decreolization or Dialect Contact in Haiti? Albert Valdman	75
3. Creole Processes
From Botany to Creolistics: The Contribution of the Lexicon on the Flora to the Debate on Indian Ocean creole Genesis Robert Chaudenson	91
Ndjuka Organisation of Experience: African or Universal? George L. Huttar	101
A Reexamination of Bickerton’s Phylogenesis Hypothesis Mary C. Black and Glenn Gilbert	111
4. Creole Syntax and Semantics
Pidgins, Creoles, Typology, and Markedness Salikoko S. Mufwene	123
The Binding Theory and Creolization: Evidence from 18th Century Negerhollands Reflexives Pieter Muysken and Hein van der Voort	145
On the Copula in Mauritian Creole, Past and Present Philip Baker and Anand Syea	159
5. Serial Verbs
Serialization in Creole Oral Discourse Geneviève Escure	179
The Definition of Serial Verbs Pieter A.M. Seuren	193
Approaches to ‘Missing” Internal (and External) Arguments in Serial Structure: Some Presumed Difficulties Francis Byrne	207

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Cited by 3 other publications

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2001. Commentary. Linguistic Typology 5:2-3

Nichols, Patricia C.

1992. Review of Singler (1990): Pidgin and Creole Tense-Mood-Aspect Systems. Diachronica 9:1 ► pp. 125 ff.

Samarin, William J.

1997. Review of Chambers (1995): Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic variation and its social significance. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:2 ► pp. 345 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Creole studies

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Contact Linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 90023249 | Marc record