The Making of a Mixed Language: The case of Ma’a/Mbugu
Maarten Mous
[Creole Language Library, 26] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
Maarten Mous
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maarten Mous plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2025 The history of numerals as a history of East African languages Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 294–305 | Chapter
The paper discusses a shift in the number system of Proto-Tanzanian Cushitic from the word for “three” to mean “four”, and the one for “two” to mean “three”. This shift was brought about by contact between an incoming group of northern Cushitic speakers and the already present group of Tanzanian… read more
2024 The example of ‘yawning’: Towards a typology of bodily actions Linguistics in the Netherlands 2024, Bril, Marco and Kristel Doreleijers (eds.), pp. 337–355 | Article
Body part terminology has been studied cross-linguistically, but there are few studies on the typology of body actions. We present a pilot for a typological study of body action lexicalization taking the action of “yawning” as a test case. We look into the morphological properties of words for… read more
2024 Chapter 11. Constructions with verbal nouns in Iraqw Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 286–313 | Chapter
Iraqw has a number of morphological means to derive nouns from verbs. All of these can develop specific meanings but it is the nominalisation that expresses the action of the verb that allows for the expression of arguments, irrespective of the actual nominalisation morpheme. These arguments… read more
2020 Transfer of Swahili ‘until’ in contact with East African languages Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 217–234 | Chapter
Swahili has transformed the noun mpaka ‘boundary, border’ into a function word ‘until’, which has successfully spread to many other East African languages with locative and temporal readings. The grammaticalisation originated in a N-N construction without an associative ‘of’ interpreted as… read more
2017 Engsh, a Kenyan middle class youth language parallel to Sheng Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:1, pp. 48–74 | Article
Youth ‘languages’ are an important topic of research in the domain of linguistic change through language contact because the change is rapid and observable and also because the social dimension of change is inevitably present. Engsh, as a youth language in Kenya expresses not only modernity and… read more
2008 Number as an exponent of gender in Cushitic Interaction of Morphology and Syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Erin Shay (eds.), pp. 137–160 | Article
2006 Selectors in Cushitic Studies in African Linguistic Typology, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard (ed.), pp. 303–325 | Article
2004 5. The grammar of conjunctive and disjunctive coordination in Iraqw Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.), pp. 109–122 | Chapter
1.Introduction
2. Basic properties of nee ‘and’ and laqáa ‘or’
3. Coordination in noun phrases
3.1 Coordinated noun phrase as a unit
3.2 Coordinated modifiers as a unit
4. Agreement
5. Word category and origin
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2003 Loss of linguistic diversity in Africa Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches, Janse, Mark and Sijmen Tol (eds.), pp. 157–170 | Article
2001 4. Paralexification in language intertwining Creolization and Contact, Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 113–124 | Article
1997 The e/a Alternation in Mbugu: The Limits of Allomorphy Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997, Coerts, Jane A. and Helen de Hoop (eds.), pp. 123–134 | Article
1992 Transparent consonants Linguistics in the Netherlands 1992, Bok-Bennema, Reineke and Roeland van Hout (eds.), pp. 101–112 | Article