Overview
Takes an dual approach to French Guianese Creole to formulate a theory of how the language arose
Contributes to the debate on creole origins and serves as a template for investigations of other creoles
Combines social history and linguistic analysis to examine creole origins
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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About the authors
William Jennings is Senior Lecturer in French language, linguistics and culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research interests lie primarily within French colonial and encounter history, with a particular focus on the emergence of creole languages and societies.
Stefan Pfänder is Full Professor of Romance linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitäts Freiburg, Germany. His teaching focuses on French, Spanish, Italian and Creole, while his research centres around the emergence of grammatical constructions in interaction, and usage-based models of language variation and change.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language
Book Subtitle: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole
Authors: William Jennings, Stefan Pfänder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61952-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61951-4Published: 11 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87197-4Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61952-1Published: 21 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 240
Topics: Language Change, African Languages, Historical Linguistics, Language History, Romance Languages, Sociolinguistics