Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems
Editor
More than any other area of the grammar, tense-mood-aspect (TMA) has provided evidence to fuel the ongoing debates about creole genesis and about the relevance of pidgin and creole phenomena to language theory more generally. This volume advances the debate in two ways. First, it makes available in print for the first time and in its original form William Labov's On the Adequacy of Natural Languages: I. “The Development of Tense”. Second, the volume features detailed analyses of the TMA systems of seven diverse pidgins and creoles, which vary in terms of their lexifying (superstrate) languages, their location, and their social histories.With the authors employing a broad range of theoretical perspectives for their analyses, the study demonstrates both the extent to which pidgins and creoles share a single, prototypical TMA system and the degree to which individual pidgins and creoles diverge from that prototype. This is a volume that brings forward our knowledge and understanding of pidgin and creole TMA.The seven languages analyzed are: Capeverdean Crioulo, Kituba, Papiamentu, Berbice Dutch, Haitian Creole, Kru Pidgin English, and Eighteenth Century Nigerian Pidgin English.
[Creole Language Library, 6] 1990. xvi, 240 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 October 2011
Published online on 28 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction: Pidgins and Creoles and Tense-Mood-AspectJohn Victor Singler | p. vii
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On the Adequacy of natural Languages: I. The Development of TenseWilliam Labov | p. 1
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Papiamentu Tense-Aspect, with Special Attention to Discourse | p. 59
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Time Reference in Kikongo-KitubaSalikoko S. Mufwene | p. 97
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Tense, Mood, and Aspect in the Haitian Creole Preverbal Marker SystemArthur K. Spears | p. 119
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Tense and Aspect in Capeverdean CriouloIzione S. Silva | p. 143
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The Tense-Mood-Aspect System of Berbice DutchIan E. Robertson | p. 169
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Nigerian Pidgin English in Old Calabar in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesJoan M. Fayer | p. 185
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The Impact of Decreolization upon T-M-A: Tenselessness, Mood, and Aspect in Kru Pidgin EnglishJohn Victor Singler | p. 203
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Author Index | p. 231
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Language Index | p. 235
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Subject Index | p. 237
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General