Returning a maverick creole to the fold: the Berbice Dutch enigma revisited

IF 0.6 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Mikael Parkvall, B. Jacobs
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Abstract Berbice Dutch was a creole language spoken in the Republic of Guyana in South America, a country first under Dutch, and later under British colonial rule. Owing mainly to Silvia Kouwenberg (A grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole, De Gruyter Mouton, 1994), we were blessed with a detailed synchronic documentation of Berbice Dutch before its demise. However, the formation of the language remains clouded in mystery: its grammar and (basic) lexicon display a seemingly unique mixture of Dutch (Creole) and Eastern Ijo, as a result of which the language is often portrayed as a challenge to existing contact-linguistic theory. In this paper, a scenario is proposed that, rather than challenging the said theory, is fully grounded in it: it will be argued that the language was a case of serial glottogenesis: a first stage of creolisation was later followed by language mixing. The paper furthermore presents hitherto unknown historical data pertaining to the arrival of Ijo speakers in Berbice.
让一个特立独行的克里奥尔人回归:重新审视伯比斯荷兰之谜
摘要柏柏尔语荷兰语是南美洲圭亚那共和国使用的克里奥尔语,该国最初处于荷兰语统治之下,后来处于英国殖民统治之下。主要归功于Silvia Kouwenberg(《柏柏尔语-荷兰语-克里奥尔语语法》,De Gruyter Mouton,1994),我们在柏柏尔语族荷兰语消亡之前获得了详细的同步文献。然而,这种语言的形成仍然充满了神秘色彩:它的语法和(基本)词典显示出荷兰语(克里奥尔语)和东方伊霍语的独特混合,因此这种语言经常被描述为对现有接触语言学理论的挑战。在这篇论文中,提出了一个场景,而不是挑战上述理论,而是完全基于该理论:有人认为,该语言是一个连续声门发生的案例:第一阶段的合成之后是语言混合。本文还介绍了迄今为止未知的关于讲伊霍语的人抵达柏比采的历史数据。
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Folia Linguistica
Folia Linguistica Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Folia Linguistica covers all non-historical areas in the traditional disciplines of general linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), and also sociological, discoursal, computational and psychological aspects of language and linguistic theory. Other areas of central concern are grammaticalization and language typology. The journal consists of scientific articles presenting results of original research, review articles, overviews of research in specific areas, book reviews, and a miscellanea section carrying reports and discussion notes. In addition, proposals from prospective guest editors for occasional special issues on selected current topics are welcomed.
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