West Africanisms in Limonese Creole English

Autor:	Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Elizabeth Grace Winkler
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	Reduplication Linguistics and Language History Sociology and Political Science Ideophone Creole language Languages of Africa Morphophonology Verb Phonology English-based creole languages Language and Linguistics Linguistics Anthropology
Zdroj:	World Englishes. 19:155-171
ISSN:	1467-971X 0883-2919
DOI:	10.1111/1467-971x.00166
Popis:	Costa Rican Limonese Creole (LC) is an English-based creole language showing substrate influence from, among other African languages, the Kwa languages of West Africa, in particular from Akan (Ghana). West Africanisms exhibited in LC include: serial verb constructions, reduplication, ideophones, and lexical retentions. The study of West Africanisms in LC contributes to the body of research on substrate influence on West Atlantic Creoles. This is done not from the extreme position that the majority of creole features can be attributed to substrate influence, but, as Mufwene wrote in 1990, that ‘creoles owe their formal features variably to both substrate influence and the bioprogram as well as from superstrate influence’ (p. 3). Substrate influence will be demonstrated through a comparison of LC and Akan morphophonology, morphosyntax, and lexicon.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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