基本説明
This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages.
Full Description
Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a "definable typological class" (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. The problem of the typological classification of creoles (by Lefebvre, Claire); 4. Creoles spoken in Africa and in the Caribbean; 5. Edo influence on Santome: Evidence from verb serialisation (by Hagemeijer, Tjerk); 6. A Wolof trace in the verbal system of the Portuguese Creole of Santiago Island (Cape Verde) (by Lang, Jurgen); 7. Substrate influences in Kriyol: Guinea-Bissau and Casamance Portuguese-related Creole (by Kihm, Alain); 8. One substrate, two creoles: The development of segmental inventories in St. Lucian and Haitian (by Brousseau, Anne-Marie); 9. Substrate features in the properties of verbs in three Atlantic creoles: Haitian Creole, Saramaccan and Papiamentu (by Lefebvre, Claire); 10. Assessing the nature and role of substrate influence in the formation and development of the creoles of Suriname (by Migge, Bettina); 11. African substratal influence on the counterfactual in Belizean Creole (by Escure, Genevieve); 12. Substrate features in Nicaraguan, Providence and San Andres Creole Englishes: A comparison with Twi (by Bartens, Angela); 13. Palenque(ro): The search for its African substrate (by Schwegler, Armin); 14. Creoles spoken in Asia; 15. Convergence-to-substratum and the passives in Singapore English (by Bao, Zhiming); 16. Tone in Singlish: Substrate features from Sinitic and Malay (by Lim, Lisa); 17. The Cantonese substrate in China Coast Pidgin (by Ansaldo, Umberto); 18. Substrate influences in Mindanao Chabacano (by Grant, Anthony P.); 19. Negation in Ternate Chabacano (by Sippola, Eeva); 20. Aspect and directionality in Kupang Malay serial verb constructions: Calquing on the grammars of substrate languages (by Jacob, June); 21. Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates (by Ansaldo, Umberto); 22. Dravidian features in the Sri Lankan Malay verb (by Slomanson, Peter); 23. Creoles spoken in the Pacific; 24. Papuan Malay of New Guinea: Melanesian influence on verb and clause structure (by Donohue, Mark); 25. The influence of Arandic languages on Central Australian Aboriginal English (by Koch, Harold); 26. Roper River Aboriginal language features in Australian Kriol: Considering semantic categories (by Munro, Jennifer); 27. Substrate influences on New South Wales Pidgin: The origin of -im and -fela (by Koch, Harold); 28. Limits of the substrate: Substrate grammatical influence in Solomon Islands Pijin (by Terrill, Angela); 29. Substrate reinforcement and the retention of Pan-Pacific Pidgin features in modern contact varieties (by Siegel, Jeff); 30. The copula in Hawai'i Creole English and substrate reinforcement (by Roberts, Sarah J.); 31. "On traduit la langue en francais": Substrate influence in the TMA system of Tayo (by Sandeman, Barbara); 32. Conclusion; 33. Creoles and language typology (by Comrie, Bernard); 34. Index of authors; 35. Index of languages and language families; 36. Index of subjects
