Structure and variation in language contact (J. Benjamins, 2006)
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Structure and Variation in Language Contact; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Introduction; Structure; The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan; Tracing the origin of modality in the creoles of Suriname1; Modeling Creole Genesis; The restructuring of tense/aspect systems in creole formation; Syntactic properties of negation in Chinook Jargon, with a comparison to two source languages; Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax; Sri Lanka Malay; The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for proven or putative relexified languages; Variation
This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect - from various perspectives and using different types of data - on the interplay between structure and variation in contact languages, both synchronically and diachronically. The contributors consider a wide range of languages, including Surinamese creoles, Chinook Jargon, Yiddish, AAVE, Haitian Creole, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Portuguese varieties, Nigerian Pidgin, Sri Lankan Malay, Papiamentu, and Bahamian Creole English. A need