Forthcoming: New research on circum-Caribbean creoles and language contact

Angela Bartens   Peter Slomanson  

Synopsis

This volume features research papers dealing with creolized and partially restructured language varieties in the wider Caribbean region. Initially conceived of as a conference volume drawing on papers presented at the 2017 Summer conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, organized by the Universities of Tampere and Turku, Finland, the authors have since expanded the content of their original papers substantially, contributing to the empirical and analytical depth of their submissions. The volume ultimately aims both to validate new contact language research with this regional focus, as well as to stimulate further research on the fascinating language varieties that have developed and continue to thrive in the Caribbean region.

Chapters

  • Introduction
    Angela Bartens, Peter Slomanson
  • African ethnolinguistic diversity in the colonial Caribbean
    The case of the eighteenth-century Danish West Indies
    Kristoffer Friis Bøegh
  • The expression of motion events in Haitian Creole
    Carolin Ulmer
  • Postulating Atlantic English Pidgin/Creole as a pluriareal language
    A perception study
    Angela Bartens, Kwaku Owusu Afriyie Osei-Tutu, Tamirand Nnena De Lisser
  • A Gbe substrate model for discontinuous negation in Spanish varieties of Chocó, Colombia
    Linguistic and historical evidence
    Eliot Raynor
  • The minutes of the Irmandade Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos in Recife
    A case study
    Fernanda Maciel Ziober
  • Language contact in Puerto Rico
    Documenting an emerging variety of English
    Sally J. Delgado

Biographies

Angela Bartens, University of Turku, University of Helsinki

Angela Bartens is professor of Spanish at the School of Languages and Translation Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Turku and docent of Ibero-Romance Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests and publications focus on creole and contact languages, especially Western Caribbean English-lexifier creoles and Afro-Hispanic language contacts, as well as language policy and planning, including language revitalization.

Peter Slomanson, Tampere University

Peter Slomanson is a senior lecturer/associate professor in the Languages Unit of the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication at Tampere University in Finland. His research interests and publications focus on the grammatical effects of collective second language acquisition and bilingualism in the development of contact languages, often focusing on endangered minority languages in Sri Lanka, on which he has done extensive fieldwork. He has also published on the influence of Malay on Afrikaans, the decline and revitalization of Irish, the history of contact linguistics, and sociophonetic variation in New York Latino English.

Book cover

Published

November 1, 2023
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Series

Studies in Caribbean Languages
Cite as
Bartens, Angela & Slomanson, Peter (eds.). Forthcoming. New research on circum-Caribbean creoles and language contact. (Studies in Caribbean Languages). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Copyright (c) 2023 Angela Bartens, Peter Slomanson; Kristoffer Friis Bøegh, Carolin Ulmer, Kwaku Owusu Afriyie Osei-Tutu, Tamirand Nnena De Lisser, Eliot Raynor, Fernanda Maciel Ziober, Sally J. Delgado

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