Alan N. Baxter

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan N. Baxter plays a role.

Journal

Title

Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes

[Creole Language Library, 46] 2012. xi, 375 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
This paper is concerned with the grammar and origins of a focusing rule in Malacca Creole Portuguese, (MCP) whereby an adjectival phrase (AdjP) may be extracted from the right branch of a noun phrase and fronted to a position prior to the determiner. It begins by describing the characteristics… read more
Baxter, Alan N. 2018 EpilogueThe Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 291–314 | Chapter
Earlier linguistic research suggested that Malacca Creole Portuguese (MCP) had existed without diglossia with Portuguese ever since the Dutch conquest of Portuguese Malacca in 1642, yet it had experienced some contact with Portuguese in the 19th and 20th centuries. The present study adds… read more
Baxter, Alan N. 2016 John Alexander Holm: 1943–2015Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:2, pp. 245–252 | Obituary
Baxter, Alan N. 2012 Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole PortuguesePidgins and Creoles in Asia, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 115–149 | Article
This paper is concerned with the nature of etymological gender inflection in Malacca Creole Portuguese and its place in the diachrony of the language. The discussion considers pairs of items with etymological gender inflection and human referents. Speaker intuitions of the word-pair vitality are… read more
Baxter, Alan N. and Augusta Bastos 2012 A closer look at the post-nominal genitive in Asian Creole PortugueseIbero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives, Cardoso, Hugo C., Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes (eds.), pp. 47–80 | Article
The chapter discusses the post-nominal genitive present in many varieties of Asian Creole Portuguese and derived from a Portuguese prenominal possessive. The text builds on Clements’ Malabar Pidgin Portuguese hypothesis, and Dalgado’s vision of an easterly spread of Indo-Portuguese features. The… read more
Cardoso, Hugo C., Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes 2012 IntroductionIbero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives, Cardoso, Hugo C., Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Baxter, Alan N. 2010 Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole PortuguesePidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts, Ansaldo, Umberto (ed.), pp. 120–154 | Article
This paper is concerned with the nature of etymological gender inflection in Malacca Creole Portuguese and its place in the diachrony of the language. The discussion considers pairs of items with etymological gender inflection and human referents. Speaker intuitions of the word-pair vitality are… read more
Baxter, Alan N., Dante Lucchesi and Maximiliano Guimaraes 1997 Gender Agreement as a "Decreolizing" Feature of an Afro-Brazilian DialectJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:1, pp. 1–57 | Article
This paper examines variation in the noun phrase gender agreement rule in the Afro-Brazilian Portuguese dialect of Helvétia. The analysis of the variation proceeds within a quantitative framework; it considers structural implications, in generative terms, and sociolinguistic aspects, yielding… read more
This paper discusses a variety of Southeast Asian Creole Portuguese (henceforth SACP) formerly spoken in Bidau, Dili, East Timor. An outline of the sociohistorical setting of the language is followed by a discussion of data sources and references to Bidau Creole Portuguese (BCP) in the literature… read more