Inheritance, contact, convergence

IF 0.8 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

English World-Wide Pub Date : 2019-06-13 DOI:10.1075/EWW.00028.YAK

K. Yakpo

引用次数: 5

Abstract

This article provides a comparative analysis of the suppletive allomorphy of two personal pronouns in the five African English-lexifier Creoles (AECs) Krio (Sierra Leone), Pichi (Equatorial Guinea), Ghanaian Pidgin English, Nigerian Pidgin, and Cameroon Pidgin. The alternation of the 3sg object forms =àm (a clitic) and ín (a non-clitic) is conditioned by a tonal obligatory contour principle (ocp), a vowel height ocp, animacy, and focus in different constellations across the five AECs. In addition, an epenthetic /r/ is recruited in four of the AECs to ensure that the ocp is not breached. The analyses suggest that pronominal suppletion in the AECs has been fashioned by processes of change and differentiation typical of geographically extensive language families, such as migration from linguistic homelands, acquisition by non-founder populations, interlectal cross-diffusion, as well as contact and convergence with adstrate, substrate, and superstrate languages.

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继承，接触，融合

本文比较分析了非洲五种英语词源克里奥尔语(AECs)中两个人称代词的补体异型，分别是克里奥(塞拉利昂)、皮奇(赤道几内亚)、加纳洋泾浜英语、尼日利亚洋泾浜英语和喀麦隆洋泾浜英语。3sg对象形式=àm (clitic)和ín(非clitic)的交替受音调强制性轮廓原则(ocp)、元音高度ocp、活力和五个aec中不同星座的焦点的制约。此外，在四个aec中招募了一名警卫，以确保不违反ocp。分析表明，AECs中代词的补充是由地理上广泛的语族的典型变化和分化过程形成的，例如来自语言家园的迁移、非创始人群的获得、智力交叉扩散以及与行政语言、基础语言和上层语言的接触和趋同。

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