A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGES. COMP. BY JOHN E. REINECKE, IN COLLAB. WITH DAVID DECAMP (U. A.). PDF Download

Author: John E. Reinecke
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Languages : en
Pages : 804

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Author: John E. Reinecke
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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Author: Glenn Gilbert
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824882156
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 637

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This book is for the memory of John E. Reinecke, a man whose humanistic activism and sharp-hewn scholarship helped to shape the scientific study of pidgin and creole languages throughout much of the twentieth century. Reinecke was both a social reformer and a leading sociolinguistic researcher working with creole languages and societies that derive from diverse groups of people thrown into close social contact. Most notably, Reinecke's keen sense of social justice has had a telling effect on the social history of Hawaii. Along with his persistent efforts to obtain a fair and equal share for wage earners in sharply stratified societies, his attention early became focused on their language. By encouraging others to study what he called "marginal languages," he was able to bring to them (and to the extraordinary issues—theoretical and practical—which they raise) a measure of prestige, both in the eyes of their speakers and in the increased attention accorded them by students of language and society. The book presents a description of Reinecke's life and work, the text of his own last paper on creolistics, and seventeen papers which reflect the range and vitality of the field that he did so much to open. Some of the papers reflect the issue which has come to dominate creole studies—the debate over the role of universals and of specific substrata as competing explanations of the amazing similarities that creoles, and perhaps pidgins also, exhibit across the world. Many describe the intense language contact within which language contraction and expansion occur (they do this either directly, or by supplying new data which will eventually feed such descriptions), and and some are our belated response to calls which Reinecke made in the 1930s. Fifty years ago, he saw the need for the kind of comparative studies which are only now under way—in, for example, Hazel Carter's paper, which represents a pioneering attempt to compare the suprasegmentals of English-based Creoles on both sides of the Atlantic. In his last years, Reinecke strongly supported research on contact languages with non-European lexical bases. He thought this was the area from which future creole studies would derive the greatest theoretical and practical gain, and in this volume six papers answer his call by analyzing such pidgins and creoles.

Author: John Ernest Reinecke
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Category : Creole dialects
Languages : en
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Author: Suzanne Romaine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315504960
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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This book defines and describes the linguistic features of these languages and considers the dynamic developments that bring them into being and lead to changes in their structure.

Author: David De Camp
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9780878402069
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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A collection of work on pidgins and creoles that includes discussions of the English-derived creole of San Andres Island and the French-derived creole of Cayenne, the theoretical contributions of creolistics to general linguistic theory, decreolization, generative phonological treatment of a hypothesized English-derived proto-creole, and the little-known Shelta language.

Author: David DeCamp
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Category : Creole dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: John A. Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521359405
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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An overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.

Author: John Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585811
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.

Author: John A. Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521271080
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides an up-to-date and readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades. Written for both students and general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics, the book's original perspective will also attract specialists in the field seeking a broad overview of the linguistic relationships among these languages. Creolized, or restructured versions of English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portugese, and other languages arose during European colonial expansion. These resulted in such creoles as Jamaican, Haitian, Papiamentu, and some one hundred others, as well as such semi-creoles as Afrikaans, non-standard Brazilian Portugese, Papiamentu, and American Black English. Scholars have tended to work on particular language varieties in relative isolation, making comparative research into the genesis, development, and structure of creoles difficult. In writing this book, Holm draws on broad studies of many languages to make clear how far-reaching creoles'similarities are and to challenge current linguistic theories on creoles and pidgins. The emphasis of this volume is largely empirical rather than descriptive. Its core is a comparative study of creoles based on European languages in Africa and the Caribbean that demonstrates the striking similarities among the languages in terms of their lexical semantics, phonology, and syntax. A forthcoming volume provides a socio-historic overview of variety development and text examples, with translations, of the restructured languages.