Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages

The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-5268-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 615 g

Reihe: Creole Language Library

This book is a ‘must read’ for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic accounts of creole genesis, this volume considers socio-historical and linguistic evidence that attests to the important roles played in the emergence of the Atlantic and Pacific Creoles by marginalized populations, such as women and people of non-European descent. In this work, the authors amass and critically analyze a wealth of compelling data not only from phonology, morpho-syntax, pragmatics, and descriptive, theoretical, and applied linguistics, but also from history, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, and critical theory to demonstrate how enterprising women, rebellious slaves, insubordinate sailors, and a host of other renegades and maroons had a major impact on the creolized societies, cultures, and languages of the colonial era Atlantic and Pacific.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faraclas, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Marginalized peoples, racialized slavery and the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles
Nicholas Faraclas and Marta Viada Bellido de Luna

African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles
Pier Angeli LeCompte Zambrana, Lourdes González Cotto, Diana Ursulin Mopsus, Susana C. De Jesús, Cándida González-López, Brenda Domínguez, Micah Corum, Aida Vergne and Nicholas Faraclas

Women and colonial era creolization
Nicholas Faraclas

Indigenous peoples and the emergence of the Caribbean Creoles
Marta Viada Bellido de Luna and Nicholas Faraclas

Linguistic evidence for the influence of indigenous Caribbean grammars on the grammars of the Atlantic Creoles
Marta Viada Bellido de Luna and Nicholas Faraclas

Sociétés de cohabitation and the similarities between the English lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic and the Pacific: The case for diffusion from the Afro-Atlantic to the Pacific
Nicholas Faraclas, Micah Corum, Rhoda Arrindell and Jean Ourdy Pierre

Influences of Houma ancestral languages on Houma French: West Muskogean features in Houma French
Nicholas Faraclas, Marie-Françoise Crouch, Diana Ursulin Mopsus, Micah Corum, Barry Green, Corinne Paulk, Curtis Hendon and Jane Verdin

Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis: Sociétés de cohabitation and the Founder Principle
Cándida González-López, Lourdes González Cotto, Pier Angeli LeCompte Zambrana, Micah Corum, Diana Ursulin Mopsus, Rhoda Arrindell, Jean Ourdy Pierre, Marta Viada Bellido de Luna and Nicholas Faraclas

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