基本説明
This volume presents a collection of new articles by sixteen specialists in the field of pidgin and creole studies, assembled in honor of the world-renowned creolist, Albert Valdman.
Full Description
This volume presents a collection of new articles by sixteen specialists in the field of pidgin and creole studies, assembled in honor of the world-renowned creolist, Albert Valdman. The articles, written from a variety of theoretical perspectives, are organized thematically in three sections: on the history of specific pidgins or creoles (including Louisiana Creole and Haitian Creole); on the sociohistorical settings that gave rise to these contact languages and issues affecting their future development; and on issues of linguistic variation and change. In keeping with Valdman's own primary interests, the French-based creoles receive the most attention, including both those of the Atlantic zone and those of the Indian Ocean, but the volume also presents significant scholarship on English- and Portuguese-based varieties.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Clements, J. Clancy); 2. SECTION ONE: HISTORY; 3. Louisiana Creole at the periphery (by Klingler, Thomas A.); 4. Using and interpreting historical texts to analyze the formation and development of creole languages (by Hazael-Massieux, Marie-Christine); 5. Lexical aspects of French and Creole in Saint-Domingue at the end of the eighteenth century (by Rezeau, Pierre); 6. The lexicalization - grammaticalization continuum (by Clements, J. Clancy); 7. Creole transplantation: A source of solutions to resistant anomalies (by McWhorter, John); 8. SECTION TWO: SOCIETY; 9. Creoles, capitalism, and colonialism (by Bickerton, Derek); 10. A curiosity of Mauritian Creole: Numerical slang (by Chaudenson, Robert); 11. Theoretical and practical conditions for the emergence of a koine among French-lexified creole languages (by Bernabe, Jean); 12. French in Haiti: Contacts and conflicts between linguistic representations (by Etienne, Corinne); 13. SECTION THREE: VARIATION; 14. Albert Valdman on the development of creoles (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 15. Diatopic variation in Haitian Creole (by Bollee, Annegret); 16. Interrogative pronouns in Louisiana Creole and the Multiple Genesis Hypothesis (by Rottet, Kevin J.); 17. Gender in French creoles: The story of a loser (by Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid); 18. Tense, mood, and aspect and the Deixis Ordering Principle (by Syea, Anand); 19. Index
