Creole studies - phylogenetic approaches / / edited by Peter Bakker [and three others].

• Author: Eeva Sippola
• TeilnehmendeR: Bakker, Peter, 1959-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier languages. With evidence from creole languages in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific, the book provides new perspectives on creole typology, cross-creole comparisons, and creole semantics. The book offers an introduction for newcomers to the fields of creole studies and phylogenetic analysis. Using these methods to analyse a variety of linguistic features, both structural and semantic, the book then turns to explore old and new questions and problems in creole studies. Original case studies explore the differences and similarities between creoles, and propose solutions to the problems of how to classify creoles and how they formed and developed. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the unity and heterogeneity of creoles and the areal influences on their development. It also provides metalinguistic discussions of the “creole” concept from different perspectives. Finally, the book reflects critically on the findings and methods, and sets new agendas for future studies. Creole Studies has been written for a broad readership of scholars and students in the fields of contact linguistics, biolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language typology, and semantics.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Creole Studies - Phylogenetic Approaches -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Key concepts in the history of creole studies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Creole studies -- 2.3 Issues in creole studies -- 2.3.1 General characteristics -- 2.3.2 Sociohistory of creoles and creolization -- 2.3.3 Development: Pidgin stage or not -- 2.3.4 Influences from input languages -- 2.3.5 Complexity of Creoles -- 2.3.6 Creators of creoles -- 2.3.7 Gradual or quick -- 2.3.8 Location -- 2.3.9 Reasons for perceived similarities -- 2.3.10 Semantics -- 2.4 Research on creole languages and the contributions to this book -- References -- Chapter 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics -- 3.1 Origin of phylogenetics in biology and linguistics -- 3.2 Phylogenetic studies in linguistics -- 3.3 Dated language phylogenies -- 3.4 Is linguistic evolution tree-like? -- 3.5 Other lateral influences between biology and linguistics -- 3.6 Creoles, stable features and their substrates and lexifiers -- 3.7 Creoles and genetic affiliation: Stammbaum, convergence, contact -- 3.8 A cognitive account of creole genesis -- 3.9 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4. Methods: On the use of networks in the study of language contactOn the use of networks in the study of language contact -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Steps of analysis: Encoding, representation, and interpretation -- 4.3 Data types -- 4.3.1 Lexical data -- 4.3.2 Typological data -- 4.4 Data coding -- 4.5 Networks and trees -- 4.6 Interpreting the results -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Creole typology I: Comparative overview of creole languages -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Phonology -- 5.2.1 Creole segmental inventories -- 5.2.2 Creole phonotactics -- 5.2.3 Creole suprasegmentals -- 5.2.4 Summary of Creole phonology -- 5.3 Creole morphology.

5.3.1 Inflectional morphology -- 5.3.2 Compounding and derivational morphology, reduplication, compounding, suppletion -- 5.3.3 Creole morphology: summary -- 5.4 Creole constituent order -- 5.4.1 Sentential constituent order -- 5.4.2 Verb phrase word order -- 5.4.3 Serial verbs -- 5.4.4 Ditransitive constructions -- 5.4.5 Noun phrase word order -- 5.4.6 Attributive possession -- 5.4.7 Predicative possession -- 5.4.8 Summary: Creole constituent order -- 5.5 The creole lexicon -- 5.5.1 The lexicon: Mixedness -- 5.5.2 The lexicon: Quantity of roots and words -- 5.5.3 Expansion of the lexicon -- 5.5.4 Substrate -- 5.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6. Creole typology II: Typological features of creoles: From early proposals to phylogenetic approaches and comparisons with non-creolesTypological features of creoles: From early proposals to phylogenetic approaches and comparisons with non-creol -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Claims about typological properties of creoles, 1950s-2000s -- 6.2.1 Taylor (1971) -- 6.2.2 Markey (1982) -- 6.2.3 Bickerton (1981, 1984) -- 6.2.4 Baker (2001) -- 6.2.5 Muysken &amp -- Law (2001) -- 6.2.6 Holm &amp -- Patrick (2007) -- 6.2.7 Szmrecsanyi &amp -- Kortmann (2009) -- 6.2.8 Cysouw (2009) -- 6.2.9 Mauritian Creole and proposed creole features (Grant &amp -- Guillemin 2012) -- 6.2.9 Mauritian Creole and proposed creole features (Grant &amp -- Guillemin 2012) -- 6.2.10 Summary of structural overviews and conclusions -- 6.3 Mass comparisons of creoles and non-creoles -- 6.3.1 Holm &amp -- Patrick's creole sample among the languages of the world -- 6.3.2 WALS features: Non-creoles and creoles -- 6.3.3 WALS features and APiCS features compared -- 6.3.4 The four WALS features that set creoles apart from non-creoles -- 6.3.5 Surinamese creoles, the lexifiers and the Gbe and Kikongo substrates -- 6.3.6 Summary mass comparisons.

6.4 Diachrony and creoles -- 6.4.1 Pidgins -- 6.4.2 Grammaticalization -- 6.4.3 Phonological processes -- 6.4.4 Speed of change -- 6.4.5 Summary: Change -- 6.5 Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 7. West African languages and creoles worldwide -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Stable features -- 7.3 Methods and sampling -- 7.4 African languages and their connections -- 7.5 West African languages and Atlantic creoles -- 7.6 West African languages and Asian creoles -- 7.7 Creoles and their lexifiers -- 7.8 Transmission of stable features in creoles and non-creoles -- 7.9 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8. The typology and classification of French-based creoles: The typology and classification of French-based creoles: A global perspective -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Previous work on the classification of French-based creoles -- 8.3 Methods and sample -- 8.4 Classifying French-based creoles -- 8.5 Measuring radicalness -- 8.6 Discussion -- 8.7 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9. The simple emerging from the complex: Nominal number in Juba Arabic creole -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Theoretical preliminaries -- 9.2.1 The Feature Pool Hypothesis -- 9.2.2 Creole distinctiveness -- 9.2.3 Hypotheses -- 9.3 Methodological preliminaries -- 9.3.1 Phylogenetic trees and linguistics -- 9.3.2 Sample -- 9.3.3 The data -- 9.4 The pool of features -- 9.4.1 Number affixing -- 9.4.2 Number and noun stems -- 9.4.3 Collectives -- 9.4.4 Other types of number inflection of nouns -- 9.4.5 Pronominal number -- 9.4.6 Number agreement -- 9.5 Phylogenetic analysis -- 9.6 Theoretical implications and questions for further research -- 9.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10. Dutch creoles compared with their lexifier -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 18th-Century Virgin Islands Creole Dutch and 20th-Century Virgin Islands Creole Dutch.

10.3 Berbice Creole -- 10.4 Skepi Dutch Creole -- 10.5 The Dutch creoles: Lexical comparison -- 10.5.1 Origin of the roots -- 10.5.2 Comparison of the Dutch roots -- 10.5.3 Phonotactics of Dutch and Ijo words in Dutch creoles -- 10.6 Typological comparison -- 10.6.1 Three varieties of Virgin Islands Creole Dutch and Berbice Creole -- 10.6.2 Skepi, Berbice, and 20th-Century Virgin Islands Creole Dutch: Grammatical traits -- 10.7 Conclusions -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 11. Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles: Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Methods -- 11.3 Previous classifications -- 11.3.1 Early studies -- 11.3.2 Atlantic and Asian creoles -- 11.3.3 Local developments -- 11.4 Language sample -- 11.5 Feature data -- 11.6 Areal clusters -- 11.7 Shared features -- 11.8 Areal differences -- 11.9 Discussion -- 11.10 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12. Afro-Hispanic varieties in comparison: New light from phylogeny -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Afro-Hispanic varieties -- 12.3 Sample and methodology -- 12.4 Results of the phylogenetic network analysis -- 12.5 Discussion of classifications and characteristic traits -- 12.6 Reflections on the method -- 12.7 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 12.1 Feature lists -- Chapter 13. Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes: A phylogenetic network analysis -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Exponents of semantic primes across creole languages -- 13.2.1 Materials -- 13.3 Character coding and phylogenetic algorithm -- 13.4 Results -- 13.5 Discussion -- 13.6 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14. Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary: A cross-creole study of semantic molecules -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Creoles, lexifiers, and semantic domains -- 14.3 Words and coding.

14.4 Results -- 14.4.1 Abstract concepts -- 14.4.2 Social molecules -- 14.4.3 Body-part molecules -- 14.4.4 Environmental molecules -- 14.5 Discussion -- 14.6 Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 15. The semantics of Englishes and Creoles: Pacific and Australian perspectives -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The "language" concept and its critics -- 15.3 Words and coding -- 15.4 Results -- 15.4.1 The Australia-Pacific Network -- 15.4.2 A case study in 'people' -- 15.5 Discussion -- 15.6 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16. Feature pools show that creoles are distinct languages due to their special origin -- References -- Chapter 17. Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics: Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics -- References -- Chapter 18. From basic to cultural semantics: Postcolonial futures for a cognitive creolistics -- References -- Chapter 19. Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so even more in the future, including in the field of creolistics: Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so -- References -- Chapter 20. Epilogue: Of theories, typology and empirical data -- References -- Languages index -- People index -- Places index -- Subject index.