By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. The study investigates the substrate features present in Atlantic Creoles, focusing on languages with European lexifiers English, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish and their West African substrates. It aims to identify reliable substrate features and explore correlations with the historical and demographic developments of the speaking communities.
By excluding non-relevant varieties and focusing on a broad range of Atlantic Creoles, this research broadens the comparative scope of previous studies, examining the influence of West African languages and the creole formation process during the period of European colonization and the slave trade.
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, This paper provides evidence of strong typological similarities between the tonal systems of Papiamentu and Saramaccan with the systems of West African languages. These typological similarities constitute the basis for a proposal that there is a genetic affiliation between Papiamentu and Saramaccan with the Kwa and Bantu language families; an affiliation that reaches beyond the accidental lexical borrowing.
Since Saramaccan has been classified as an English-based Creole, and Papiamentu as a Romance-based Creole, their similarities indicate that their substrata have a greater significance in Creole genesis than previously recognized. Why creoles have not developed from pidgins 3 Most of the arguments summarized below are intended to provide a notional, not so speculative, background to the discussions in the following sections. Space limitations dictate that I not repeat here demonstrations that are elaborated in Chaudenson and Mufwene It is surprising that the pidgin-to-creole developmental scenario has hardly been disputed for almost a whole century, from Schuchardt , Jespersen , and Bloomfield to the present day.
A simple look at the geographical distribution of our heuristic prototypes of creoles and pidgins -those lexified by European languages -suggests already that the alleged ancestor-to-descendant connection is tenuous. In their paper "Why we may not find intentions in the brain," Uithol et al. Their more specific suggestion is that the absence of clear neural correlates undermines the traditional understanding of intention.
