Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
1. Auflage November 2008
704 Seiten, Hardcover
Handbuch/Nachschlagewerk
Kurzbeschreibung
The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies tackles the cross-linguistic questions that animate pidgin and creole studies. Bringing together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor list, this comprehensive and broad-ranging collection explores the core aspects of pidgins/creoles, from phonology to language acquisition, and from language variation to education. The book is 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 their role in society. The result is a stimulating one-volume reference work covering the key issues, topics, and research in this field.
The comparatively recent origins of pidgins and creoles provide them with a special place in linguistic theory. Debates about the origin and character of these languages have informed broader discussions within grammatical theory, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies tackles these cross-linguistic questions that animate pidgin and creole studies. Bringing together newly commissioned material by an international contributor list, this comprehensive and broad-ranging collection explores the core aspects of pidgins/creoles, from phonology to language acquisition, and from language variation to education. The book is structured into five sections covering: the properties of pidgins and creoles; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; pidgins/creoles and linguistic explanation; the relation of pidgins/creoles to kindred languages; and their role in society. The result is a stimulating one-volume reference work covering the key issues, topics, and research in this field.
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1. Introduction: Silvia Kouwenberg (University of the West Indies, Jamaica) and John Victor Singler (New York University).
PART 1: Properties of Pidgins and Creoles:.
2. Atlantic Creole Syntax: Don Winford (Ohio State University).
3. Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability: Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom).
4. Pidgin and Creole Morphology: Terry Crowley (formerly the University of Waikato, New Zealand).
5. Creole Phonology: Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
6. Pidgins Versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles: Peter Bakker (Aarhus University, Denmark).
7. Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles: Kees Versteegh (University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands).
PART 2: Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis:.
8. Pidgins, Creoles, and Second Language Acquisition: Jeff Siegel (University of New England, Australia).
9. The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis: Tonjes Veenstra (Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research, Germany).
10. Pidgins/Creoles, and Historical Linguistics: Sarah Thomason (University of Michigan).
11. Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview: Raj Mesthrie (University of Cape Town, South Africa).
12. Creole Studies and Multilingualism: Pieter Muysken (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands).
13. A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation: Jacques Arends (formerly the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
14. The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis: John Victor Singler (New York University).
15. The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis: Christine Jourdan (Concordia University).
PART 3: Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation:.
16. Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles: Adrienne Bruyn (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands).
17. Creoles, Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal: Alain Kihm (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France).
18. The Nature of Evidence in Explanations of Pidgin/Creole Genesis: Evidence from Semantic Structure: George Huttar (Editor of SIL International).
19. Pidgins, Creoles, and Variation: Peter Patrick (University of Essex, United Kingdom).
PART 4: Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages:.
20. The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin and Creole Studies: Judy Kegl (University of Southern Maine).
21. Pidgins/Creoles and African American English: Arthur Spears (The City University of New York).
22. Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean: John Lipski (Pennsylvania State University).
PART 5: Pidgins/Creoles in Society:.
23. Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse: Geneviève Escure (University of Minnesota).
24. Pidgins/Creoles and Education: Dennis Craig (formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana).
25. Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles: Hubert Devonish (University of the West Indies, Jamaica).
26. Literary Representations of Creole Languages: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean: Hélène Buzelin (Université de Montréal, Canada) and Lise Winer (McGill University, Canada).
-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
