Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of VernacularsCambridge University Press, 2003 M12 18 There is widespread agreement that certain non-Creole language varieties are structurally quite different from the European languages out of which they grew; however, until recently, linguists have found difficulty in accounting for either their genesis or their synchronic structure. This 2003 study argues that the transmission of source languages from native to non-native speakers led to 'partial restructuring', whereby some of the source languages' morphosyntax was retained, but a significant number of substrate and interlanguage features were also introduced. Comparing languages such as African-American English, Afrikaans and Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese, John Holm identifies the linguistic processes that lead to partial restructuring, bringing into focus a key span on the continuum of contact-induced language change which has not previously been analysed. Informed by the first systematic comparison of the social and linguistic facts in the development of these languages, this book will be welcomed by students of contact linguistics, sociolinguistics and anthropology. |
Contenido
1 The study of partially restructured vernaculars | 1 |
2 Social factors in partial restructuring | 24 |
3 The verb phrase | 72 |
4 The noun phrase | 92 |
5 The structure of clauses | 116 |
6 Conclusions | 135 |
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Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars John Holm Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars John Holm Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
Términos y frases comunes
African American English Afrikaans Atlantic creoles auxiliary Baker and Corne basilectal basilectal variety blacks Brazil Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese Cape Caribbean Spanish Cellier Chapuis forthcoming Chaudenson colonies construction copula créole creole languages creolized decreolization degree of restructuring developed dialects Dutch eighteenth century European Portuguese French fully creolized varieties fully restructured guages Gullah Holm ibid inflections influence Khoi language contact language varieties lects lexical Língua Língua Geral linguistic Malagasy marking mâze Mello morphemes morphology morphosyntactic muê Mufwene native speakers negation non-creole non-verbal predicates notes noun phrase NSCS Palenquero Papiamentu parallel partially restructured languages partially restructured varieties percent phonological rules pidgin plantations plural population possessive preposition Ramassamy Reinecke relative pronoun Réunion Réunionnais Rickford Schwegler semi-creole slaves sociolinguistic source language South speech spoken standard English structure substrate languages superstrate syntactic tense Tomé varieties of English verb phrase verbal VLRF whites word order zero zero copula