Pidginization and Creolization of Languages
by Hymes, DellFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1971-01-02
Publisher(s): Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary
A collection of essays on the pidginization and creolization of language, taken from a conference at The University of the West Indies in April 1968.
Table of Contents
| Preface and Introduction: Preface | |
| Introduction: the study of pidgin and creole languages | |
| A Pidgin (and Two Creoles): Introduction | |
| TÃóy Bá”ôi: notes on the pidgin French spoken in Vietnam | |
| The Katanga (Lubumbashi) Swahili creole | |
| The language situation in Haiti | |
| General Conceptions of Process: Introduction | |
| Linguistic hybridization and the 'special case' of pidgins and creoles | |
| Salient and substantive pidginization | |
| Absence of copula and the notion of simplicity: a study of normal speech, baby talk, foreigner talk, and pidgins | |
| Convergence and creolization: a case from the Indo-Aryan/Dravidian border | |
| Acculturation and the cultural matrix of creolization | |
| Hypotheses as to the origin and modification of pidgins | |
| A note on reduction and expansion in grammar | |
| Language contact and the problem of convergent generative systems: Chinook jargon | |
| The question of creolization in Puerto Rican Spanish | |
| Problems of Historical Reconstruction: Introduction | |
| Tracing the pidgin element in Jamaican creole (with notes on the nature of pidgin vocabularies) | |
| Lexical origins and semantic structure in Philippine creole Spanish | |
| The strange case of Mbugu (Tanzania) | |
| Detecting prior creolization: an analysis of the historical origins of Marathi | |
| A report on Chinook jargon | |
| Problems in the study of Hawaiian English | |
| Kongo words in Saramaxx Tongo | |
| Tone and intonation in Sierra Leone | |
| A provisional comparison of the English-derived Atlantic creoles | |
| Grammatical and lexical affinities of creoles | |
| Variation and Use: A Range of English-Linked Cases: Introduction | |
| Varieties of creole in Suriname: church creole and pagan cult languages | |
| Prestige in choice of language and linguistic form Christian | |
| The art of reading creole poetry | |
| Coexistent systems in language variation: the case of Hawaiian English | |
| Jamaican creole: can dialect boundaries be defined? | |
| Toward a generative analysis of a post-creole speech continuum | |
| Education and creole English in the West Indies: some sociolinguistic factors | |
| The creolist and the study of Negro non-standard dialects in the continental United States | |
| Cultural and linguistic ambiguity: some observations on the role of English-based creole in and Antiguan village | |
| The English language in Hawaii | |
| A report on neo-Melanesian | |
| Disciplinary Perspectives: Introduction | |
| Some social forces and some social functions of pidgin and creole languages | |
| The notion of 'system' in creole languages | |
| Language history and creole studies | |
| The socio-historical background to pidginization and creolization | |
| Appendices | |
| Index | |
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