Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages
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Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages

  1. 387 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages

About this book

Until very recently, phonology and morphology have been neglected areas in the study of creole languages. This collection of articles presents intriguing data and new analyses from a wide range of creoles that call into question traditional claims about the nature of the phonological and morphological systems of these languages and give crucial insights into one of the major questions of creole studies, i.e. the question of how these languages and their grammars come about. The volume is organized into 5 sections, each focusing on particular aspects of the respective subsystems: >Segments and syllables<, >Stress, tone and intonation<, >Morphophonology<, >Derivational morphology<, >Inflection<.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Section 1: Segments and syllables
  4. Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked
  5. A new look at nasalization in Haitian Creole
  6. Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole
  7. Rules vs. analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan
  8. New evidence from the past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize? That is the question
  9. Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense
  10. Section 2: Stress, tone and intonation
  11. The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values
  12. African American English suprasegmentals: A study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States
  13. Section 3: Morphophonology
  14. The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian
  15. Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication
  16. Syllable structure and lexical markedness in creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere
  17. Section 4: Derivational morphology
  18. Early 18th century Sranan -man
  19. Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole)
  20. The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin and the notion of ‘simplicity’ in pidgin and creole languages: What happens to morphology under contact?
  21. Section 5: Inflectional morphology
  22. What verbal morphology can tell us about creole genesis: the case of French-related creoles
  23. Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and creoles: A comparative study
  24. Inflectional categories in creole languages
  25. Subject Index
  26. Language Index
  27. Author Index