the handbook of pidgin and creole studies

The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a definable typological class (McWhorter 1998). Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.Description: Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Singler (Eds.), The handbook of Pidgin and creole studies (pp. Pidgins/creoles and historical linguistics.

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages., 23, 307–238. Creoles as interlanguages: Syntactic structures. The atlas of pidgin and creole structures. Michaelis, S., Maurer, P., Haspelmath, M., & Huber, M. Identifying the creole prototype: Vindicating a typological class. Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar: The case of Haitian creole. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 173–221.Ĭhaudenson, R. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 26, 5–42.īickerton, D.

Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.īakker, P., Daval-Markussen, A., Parkvall, M., & Plag, I. Plag (Eds.), Creolization and language change (pp. Jourdan (Eds.), L2 acquisition and creole genesis: Dialogues (pp.

The role of the syntax-semantics interface in language transfer.

The handbook of pidgin and creole studies