CREOLE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY

$3.00

It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the linguistic properties of specific Creole languages to each other and also to non-Creole languages. Using a variety of methodological and analytical approaches, the contributions to this volume show that the linguistic classification of Creole languages continues to be a topic of intense debate that requires the re-examination of the premises of linguistic typology. What is the linguistic motivation for considering that languages are related or unrelated? How and why do common linguistic properties arise? Are Creoles indeed exceptional? This volume examines these questions and provides a strong foundation for continued research into the phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic features found in Creole languages. Most of these articles were previously published in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:1 (2011). The article by Jeff Good was previously published in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:1 (2012).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
1–7

Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles
Peter Bakker, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, Mikael Parkvall and Ingo Plag
9–45

Typologizing grammatical complexities: Why creoles may be paradigmatically simple but syntagmatically average
Jeff Good
47–93

Pidgin-creoles as a scattered sprachbund: Comparing Kriyol and Nubi
Alain Kihm
95–140

Creolization and admixture: Typology, feature pools, and second language acquisition
Ingo Plag
141–162

The Gulf of Guinea Creoles: Genetic and typological relations
Tjerk Hagemeijer
163–206

Typology of creole phonology: Phoneme inventories and syllable templates
Thomas B. Klein
207–244

The typology of Caribbean Creole reduplication
Silvia Kouwenberg and Darlene LaCharité
245–268

Language index
269–275
Subject index
277–279

“The volume shows that creoles may be both more complex overall and less exceptional structurally than commonly thought.”
Natalie Operstein & Allyson Walker, California State University, Fullerton, in the Journal of Historical Linguistics 2:2 (2012)