Studies in Contact Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert

ISBN-13: 9780820479347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 334 str.

Linda L. Thornburg; Janet M. Fuller; Glenn G. Gilbert

Opis

This state-of-the-art volume features fourteen contributions by internationally renowned scholars covering three areas of contact linguistics: (1) Creolistics, beginning with an essay on the rise of the meaning and use of the word criollo, followed by studies of linguistic features of African American English, bozal Spanish, and Afrikaans; (2) German language varieties spoken in different periods and regions of the United States; and (3) theoretical issues central to analyzing language contact phenomena. Fittingly, social factors figure prominently in these analyses of language structure, providing a comprehensive view of the issues and topics to which Glenn G. Gilbert has dedicated his professional life.

Spis treści

Contents: Peter A. Roberts: The odyssey of criollo - John R. Rickford: The Anglicist / creolist quest for the roots of AAVE: Historical overview and new evidence from the copula - Geneviève Escure: Black / white contacts and the maintenance of identity in Minneapolis African American English: An examination of habitual aspect - Armin Schwegler: Bozal Spanish: Captivating new evidence from a contemporary source (Afro-Cuban «Palo Monte») - Hans den Besten: The origins of the Afrikaans pre-nominal possessive system(s) - Mark L. Louden: Patterns of language maintenance in German American speech islands - William D. Keel: Plattdüütsch and Plautdietsch in western Missouri and Kansas: The resilience of Low German networks on the Great Plains - Joseph C. Salmons/Felecia A. Lucht: Standard German in Texas - Janet M. Fuller: Borrowing trouble: Convergence in Pennsylvania German - Michael Clyne: Some exploratory comments relating sociolinguistic typology to language shift - Donald Winford: Revisiting relexification in creole formation - John H. McWhorter: Revisiting the creole prototype: Signs of antiquity in older languages - Hirokuni Masuda: Microsyntax and macrodiscourse: «Da mistery» in Hawai'i Creole - Michael Aceto: Wrestling with dichotomies in creole studies: Towards a more complete view of language emergence.

O autorze

The Editors: Linda L. Thornburg holds a B.A. in English literature and an M.A. in English as a foreign language from Southern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Southern California. She has taught at California State University, Fresno; Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor; and at Hamburg University. She has published numerous articles on grammatical reflections of conceptual metonymy, metaphor, and pragmatics with Klaus-Uwe Panther, with whom she is co-editor of Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing (2003).
Janet M. Fuller is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University. She completed her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of South Carolina, her M.A. in American studies and ethnology at the Freie Universität Berlin, and her B.A. in anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. Her research interests include language contact and bilinguals (German/English and Spanish/English), sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and gender studies.