TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs,Bart
TI  - Origins of a Creole: The History of Papiamentu and Its African Ties 
T2  - Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] ,
SN  - 9781614511427
AV  - PM7895.P3 J33 2012
U1  - 467.972986467/.972986 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Creole dialects
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Language and education
KW  - Papiamentu language
KW  - Etymology
KW  - History
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Karibik
KW  - Kreolsprachen
KW  - Romanische Sprachen
KW  - Sprachgeschichte
KW  - Sprachkontakt
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Applied Linguistics
KW  - Creole Languages
KW  - Historical Linguistics
KW  - Language Change
KW  - Language Contact
KW  - Romance Languages
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511076
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614511076
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614511076/original
ER  -