Semantic Phenomena in Creole Languages: Material

General resources on creole languages

• The Language Varieties Web Site: http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/index.html

• The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online (APiCS Online): http://apics-online.info/

• Derek Bickerton. 2016. Roots of language (Classics in Linguistics 3). Berlin: Language Science Press. Open access via: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/91

• Numbers in pidgings, creoles, and some constructed languages: http://www.zompist.com/last.htm

• Revista de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola: http://www.acblpe.com/revista (free open access journal)

• Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JPCL): https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jpcl/main, volumes from 2000 on available via UB Frankfurt.

• Homepage of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, providing many useful links: https://sites.google.com/site/societypidgncreolelinguistics/home

• Peter L. Patrick's page Pidgins and Creoles for Beginners: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/Courses/CreolesIntro.html

• Some short overview videos on youtube:
  • Contribution on Pidgins and Creoles on the LingSpace youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjd5rj9Ata8
  • Contribution on What are Creoles and Pidgins? And What`s the Difference? on the LangFocus youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJI7SdS9Gg

Individual creole languages

The languages considered in the course are marked with *.

Afrikaans

• Information in APiCS: http://apics-online.info/contributions/29
  Hans den Besten, Theresa Biberauer. 2013. Afrikaans structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/29, Accessed on 2016-03-05.)

Bislama

Vanuatu:

• At APiCS: http://apics-online.info/contributions/23
  Miriam Meyerhoff. 2013. Bislama structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/23, Accessed on 2016-03-06.)
• On the Language Varieties Site: http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/bislama.html
• Audio examples:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHJOlCbQbbU&nohtml5 (first half in Bislama, transcript given below the video screen)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NrSATT7Y7M

Cape Verdian Creole

Cape Verde

• Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verdean_Creole

Haitian Creole, Kreyòl

• At APiCS: http://apics-online.info/contributions/49
  Dominique Fattier. 2013. Haitian Creole structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/49, Accessed on 2016-03-06.)
• Lefebvre, Claire. 1996. The tense, mood and aspect system of Haitian Creole and the problem of transmission of grammar in creole genesis. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11. 231-312.
  Available online at: http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/264

* Hawai'i Creole

For more information and links see the course page on Hawai'i Creole

Hawai‘i

• Information on APiCS: http://apics-online.info/contributions/26
  Viveka Velupillai. 2013. Hawai‘i Creole structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/26, Accessed on 2016-03-05.)
• On the Language Varieties Site: http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/hce.html
• CNN report on Hawai'i Pidgin English being recognized as an official language on Hawai'i (Nov. 12, 2015): http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/12/living/pidgin-english-hawaii/

* Jamaican

• Information in APiCS: http://apics-online.info/contributions/8
  Joseph T. Farquharson. 2013. Jamaican structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/8, Accessed on 2016-03-05.)
• Material from Peter L. Patrick's homepage:
  • Jamaican Creole texts: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/JCtexts.html
  • Patrick, Peter L. Jamaican Creole morphology and syntax. http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/papers/JamCreoleGrammar.pdf
    Draft version of: This draft version appeared 2004 in Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol 2: Morphology and Syntax, ed. Bernd Kortmann, Edgar W Schneider, Clive Upton, Rajend Mesthrie & Kate Burridge. (Topics in English Linguistics, ed. Bernd Kortmann & Elizabeth Closs Traugott.) Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Video on the history of Jamaican on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpnWAIFLU9A

Kamtok

Cameroon: Kamtok (Cameroon Pidgin English): http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/cameroon.html

Krio

Sierra Leone: Krio: http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/krio.html

* Kriol (Roper River Kriol)

For more information, see the course site on Kriol.

Australia

• At APiCS: http://apics-online.info/contributions/25
  Eva Schultze-Berndt, Denise Angelo. 2013. Kriol structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/25, Accessed on 2016-04-25.)
• Recent online article on Kriol as ``the largest language spoken exclusively in Australia´´: http://theconversation.com/explainer-the-largest-language-spoken-exclusively-in-australia-kriol-56286

Negerhollands

• At APiCS: http://apics-online.info/contributions/27
  Robbert van Sluijs. 2013. Negerhollands structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/27, Accessed on 2016-03-07.)
• Die creol taal, Blog on Negerhollands: http://diecreoltaal.com/

Nigerian Pidgin/Naijá

Nigeria

• At APiCS: http://apics-online.info/contributions/17
  Nicholas Faraclas. 2013. Nigerian Pidgin structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/17, Accessed on 2016-03-05.)
• At the Language Varieties Site: http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/naija.html

Papiamentu

Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao

• At APiCS: http://apics-online.info/contributions/47
  Silvia Kouwenberg. 2013. Papiamentu structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/47, Accessed on 2016-03-05.)
• At the Language Varieties Site: http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/papiamentu.html

* Tok Pisin

Papua New Guinea

• At APiCS: http://apics-online.info/contributions/22
  Geoff P. Smith, Jeff Siegel. 2013. Tok Pisin structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/22, Accessed on 2016-03-05.)
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tok_Pisin
• At the Language Varieties Site: http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/tokpisin.html
• Robert Eklund’s Tok Pisin Page: http://roberteklund.info/PNG-TokPisin.htm
• Corpus of Tok Pisin folk tales: http://www.tokpisin.org/index.shtml
• Tokpisin Grammar Workbook for English Speakers. A Practical Approach to Learning the Sentence Structure of Melanesian Pidgin (or Tokpisin): http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED401761.pdf
• Questionaire for Unserdeutsch, consisting of English sentences with their Tok Pisin translations: https://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/germanistik/sprachwissenschaft/Unserdeutsch/downloads/fragebuch-endversion-29_6_2015-1.pdf

* Unserdeutsch (Rabaul Creole German)

• Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unserdeutsch
• Information page of the University of Augsburg (Germany) with rich material: https://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/germanistik/sprachwissenschaft/Unserdeutsch/
• Information page of the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen: http://www.uni-koeln.de/gbs/unserdeutsch/index.html

example text Rumplstiltskin: http://www.uni-koeln.de/gbs/unserdeutsch/rumpelstiltskin.html

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