Full Description
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier languages. With evidence from creole languages in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific, the book provides new perspectives on creole typology, cross-creole comparisons, and creole semantics. The book offers an introduction for newcomers to the fields of creole studies and phylogenetic analysis. Using these methods to analyse a variety of linguistic features, both structural and semantic, the book then turns to explore old and new questions and problems in creole studies. Original case studies explore the differences and similarities between creoles, and propose solutions to the problems of how to classify creoles and how they formed and developed. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the unity and heterogeneity of creoles and the areal influences on their development. It also provides metalinguistic discussions of the "creole" concept from different perspectives. Finally, the book reflects critically on the findings and methods, and sets new agendas for future studies. Creole Studies has been written for a broad readership of scholars and students in the fields of contact linguistics, biolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language typology, and semantics.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Chapter 1. Introduction (by Levisen, Carsten); 3. Chapter 2. Key concepts in the history of creole studies (by Bakker, Peter); 4. Chapter 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics (by Borchsenius, Finn); 5. Chapter 4. Methods: On the use of networks in the study of language contact (by Bakker, Peter); 6. Chapter 5. Creole typology I: Comparative overview of creole languages (by Bakker, Peter); 7. Chapter 6. Creole typology II: Typological features of creoles: from early proposals to phylogenetic approaches and comparisons with non-creoles (by Daval-Markussen, Aymeric); 8. Chapter 7. West African languages and creoles worldwide (by Daval-Markussen, Aymeric); 9. Chapter 8. The typology and classification of French-based creoles: A global perspective (by Daval-Markussen, Aymeric); 10. Chapter 9. The simple emerging from the complex: Nominal number in Juba Arabic creole (by Goldshtein, Yonatan); 11. Chapter 10. Dutch creoles compared with their lexifier (by Bakker, Peter); 12. Chapter 11. Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles (by Sippola, Eeva); 13. Chapter 12. Afro-Hispanic varieties in comparison: New light from phylogeny (by Perez, Danae); 14. Chapter 13. Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes: A phylogenetic network analysis (by Levisen, Carsten); 15. Chapter 14. Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary: A cross-creole study of semantic molecules (by Levisen, Carsten); 16. Chapter 15. The semantics of Englishes and Creoles: Pacific and Australian perspectives (by Levisen, Carsten); 17. Chapter 16. Feature pools show that creoles are distinct languages due to their special origin (by Bakker, Peter); 18. Chapter 17. Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics (by Sippola, Eeva); 19. Chapter 18. From basic to cultural semantics: Postcolonial futures for a cognitive creolistics (by Levisen, Carsten); 20. Chapter 19. Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so even more in the future, including in the field of creolistics (by Borchsenius, Finn); 21. Chapter 20. Epilogue: Of theories, typology and empirical data (by Migge, Bettina); 22. Language index; 23. People index; 24. Places index; 25. Subject index
