Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Origins of a Creole : The History of Papiamentu and Its African Ties / Bart Jacobs.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] ; 3Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (387 p.) : 4 MapsContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781614511427
  • 9781614511076
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 467.972986 467/.972986
LOC classification:
  • PM7895.P3 J33 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Critical review of the literature on the origins of Papiamentu -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- Chapter 3. Selected parts of speech -- Chapter 4. Morphology -- Chapter 5. Verbal system -- Chapter 6. Summary and interim analysis of the linguistic results -- Chapter 7. The historical ties between Upper Guinea and Curaçao -- Chapter 8. Discussion:The development from Upper Guinea PC to Papiamentu -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- Appendices -- References -- Index
Summary: This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. In the literature on the issue, widely diverging hypotheses have been advanced, but scholars have not come close to a consensus. The present study casts new and long-lasting light on the issue, putting forward compelling interdisciplinary evidence that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following the trans-Atlantic transfer of native speakers to Curaçao in the latter half of the 17th century, the Portuguese-based proto-variety underwent a far-reaching process of relexification towards Spanish, affecting the basic vocabulary while leaving intact the original phonology, morphology, and syntax. Papiamentu is thus shown to constitute a case of 'language contact reduplicated' in that a creole underwent a second significant restructuring process (relexification). These explicit claims and their rigorous underpinning will set standards for both the study of Papiamentu and creole studies at large and will be received with great interest in the wider field of contact linguistics.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781614511076

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Critical review of the literature on the origins of Papiamentu -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- Chapter 3. Selected parts of speech -- Chapter 4. Morphology -- Chapter 5. Verbal system -- Chapter 6. Summary and interim analysis of the linguistic results -- Chapter 7. The historical ties between Upper Guinea and Curaçao -- Chapter 8. Discussion:The development from Upper Guinea PC to Papiamentu -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- Appendices -- References -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. In the literature on the issue, widely diverging hypotheses have been advanced, but scholars have not come close to a consensus. The present study casts new and long-lasting light on the issue, putting forward compelling interdisciplinary evidence that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following the trans-Atlantic transfer of native speakers to Curaçao in the latter half of the 17th century, the Portuguese-based proto-variety underwent a far-reaching process of relexification towards Spanish, affecting the basic vocabulary while leaving intact the original phonology, morphology, and syntax. Papiamentu is thus shown to constitute a case of 'language contact reduplicated' in that a creole underwent a second significant restructuring process (relexification). These explicit claims and their rigorous underpinning will set standards for both the study of Papiamentu and creole studies at large and will be received with great interest in the wider field of contact linguistics.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)