The perfect in English-lexifier pidgins and creoles

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Pub Date : 2019-11-25 DOI:10.1075/jpcl.00039.hac

Stephanie Hackert

引用次数: 17

Abstract

Abstract This study investigates the expression of perfect meanings in thirty English-lexifier pidgins and creoles or related varieties, such as African American Vernacular English or Singlish. The data were elicited with the help of sixteen sentences and a short text from Dahl’s (1985: 198–206) typological tense-aspect questionnaire. The perfective, as the perfect’s ‘anti-prototype’ (Dahl 2014: 273), is also considered. The possession of a grammaticalized perfect category is particularly frequent in West Africa, where it is likely to constitute a case of substrate influence; moreover, the gram is considerably less frequent in English-lexifier pidgins and creoles than in non-creole languages, which may be related to recent grammaticalization processes.

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完美的英语词汇，混杂语和克里奥尔语

摘要本研究考察了30种具有英语词性的洋泾浜语和克里奥尔语及其相关变体，如非裔美国白话英语和新加坡英语中完成义的表达。数据是通过Dahl(1985: 198-206)类型时态方面问卷中的16句话和一篇短文得到的。完美，作为完美的“反原型”(Dahl 2014: 273)，也被考虑。在西非，拥有语法化的完成类别特别频繁，在那里它很可能构成一个基底影响的案例;此外，与非克里奥尔语相比，克在英语词性混杂语和克里奥尔语中的使用频率要低得多，这可能与最近的语法化过程有关。

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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Multiple-

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1.20

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28.60%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JPCL) aims to provide a forum for the scholarly study of pidgins, creoles, and other contact language varieties, from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The journal places special emphasis on current research devoted to empirical description, theoretical issues, and the broader implications of the study of contact languages for theories of language acquisition and change, and for linguistic theory in general. The editors also encourage contributions that explore the application of linguistic research to language planning, education, and social reform, as well as studies that examine the role of contact languages in the social life and culture, including the literature, of their communities.