Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language

Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

William Jennings, Stefan Pfänder (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XIV, 240 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-61951-4 (ISBN)

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This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages in contact.
Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

William Jennings is Senior Lecturer in French language, linguistics and culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research interests lie primarily within French colonial and encounter history, with a particular focus on the emergence of creole languages and societies. Stefan Pfänder is Full Professor of Romance linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitäts Freiburg, Germany. His teaching focuses on French, Spanish, Italian and Creole, while his research centres around the emergence of grammatical constructions in interaction, and usage-based models of language variation and change.

Chapter 1. Introduction: A dual approach.- Chapter 2. History: The Creation of French Guianese Creole.- Chapter 3. Linguistics: Inheritance and Innovation in French Guianese Creole.- Chapter 4. Conclusion.

"The book is well written, the argumentation is usually clear, the authors have a clear theorical framework, they present a great deal of linguistic data ... . This book is probably its best test to date. ... In short, this is an interesting book, more historically informed than most works of its kind." (Peter Bakker, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Vol. 36 (2), 2021)

“The book is well written, the argumentation is usually clear, the authors have a clear theorical framework, they present a great deal of linguistic data … . This book is probably its best test to date. … In short, this is an interesting book, more historically informed than most works of its kind.” (Peter Bakker, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Vol. 36 (2), 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum	19.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 240 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	459 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	African Languages • Caribbean colonial languages • Colonial Linguistics • Creole languages • French Guianese Creole • Historical & comparative linguistics • Historical & comparative linguistics • Historical Linguistics • language change • Language History • Language: history & general works • Language: history & general works • language origins and evolution • Language: reference & general • Language: reference & general • Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages • Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages • Romance languages • Social Sciences • Sociolinguistics
ISBN-10	3-319-61951-9 / 3319619519
ISBN-13	978-3-319-61951-4 / 9783319619514
Zustand	Neuware