Alan N. Baxter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan N. Baxter plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0920-9034 | E-ISSN 1569-9870
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
Articles
2023 Adjective phrase fronting in the Malacca Creole Portuguese noun phrase: A vestige of South Asian substrate? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article
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
2018 Epilogue The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 291–314 | Chapter
2018 Malacca Creole Portuguese in the 19th century: Evidence of a wider lectal range? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:2, pp. 247–279 | Article
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
2016 John Alexander Holm: 1943–2015 Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:2, pp. 245–252 | Obituary
2012 Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole Portuguese Pidgins 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
2012 A closer look at the post-nominal genitive in Asian Creole Portuguese Ibero-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
2012 Introduction Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives, Cardoso, Hugo C., Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2010 Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole Portuguese Pidgins 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
2004 5. The development of variable NP plural agreement in a restructured African variety of Portuguese Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève and Armin Schwegler (eds.), pp. 97–126 | Chapter
1997 Creole-like features in the verb system of an Afro-Brazilian variety of Portuguese The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 265 ff. | Article
1997 Gender Agreement as a "Decreolizing" Feature of an Afro-Brazilian Dialect Journal 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
1990 Notes on the Creole Portuguese of Bidau, East Timor Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:1, pp. 1–38 | Article
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