Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles

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Autor(a) principal: Hagemeijer, Tjerk
Data de Publicação: 2009
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/31155
Resumo: Reinterpretation of morpheme boundaries is a well-attested phenomenon in contact linguistics and language-internal diachronic change. Examples of agglutination have been noted in a wide array of creole languages (e.g. Holm 1988: 97; Parkvall 2000; 81-3) and especially in French-based creoles (e.g. Baker 1984, Grant 1995). This paper focuses on the Gulf of Guinea creoles (GGCs), where a number of etymologically consonant-initial words in the lexifier language, Portuguese, exhibit an agglutinated vowel lacking a morphological function. This property is particularly common in Lung’ie (Principense Creole). My aim is to answer the following interrelated questions: (i) Is there evidence for diachronic layering of agglutination in the GGCs? (ii) What are the workings that underlie agglutination in the GGCs? (iii) What are the origins of agglutination in the GGCs?
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spelling Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creolesReinterpretation of morpheme boundaries is a well-attested phenomenon in contact linguistics and language-internal diachronic change. Examples of agglutination have been noted in a wide array of creole languages (e.g. Holm 1988: 97; Parkvall 2000; 81-3) and especially in French-based creoles (e.g. Baker 1984, Grant 1995). This paper focuses on the Gulf of Guinea creoles (GGCs), where a number of etymologically consonant-initial words in the lexifier language, Portuguese, exhibit an agglutinated vowel lacking a morphological function. This property is particularly common in Lung’ie (Principense Creole). My aim is to answer the following interrelated questions: (i) Is there evidence for diachronic layering of agglutination in the GGCs? (ii) What are the workings that underlie agglutination in the GGCs? (iii) What are the origins of agglutination in the GGCs?John BenjaminsRepositório da Universidade de LisboaHagemeijer, Tjerk2018-01-29T10:54:49Z20092009-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/31155engHagemeijer, Tjerk. 2009. Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles. In Enoch Aboh & Norval Smith (eds.), Complex processes in new languages, 29-50. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:24:25Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/31155Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:46:40.936163Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles
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title_short Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles
title_full Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles
title_fullStr Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles
title_full_unstemmed Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles
title_sort Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles
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description Reinterpretation of morpheme boundaries is a well-attested phenomenon in contact linguistics and language-internal diachronic change. Examples of agglutination have been noted in a wide array of creole languages (e.g. Holm 1988: 97; Parkvall 2000; 81-3) and especially in French-based creoles (e.g. Baker 1984, Grant 1995). This paper focuses on the Gulf of Guinea creoles (GGCs), where a number of etymologically consonant-initial words in the lexifier language, Portuguese, exhibit an agglutinated vowel lacking a morphological function. This property is particularly common in Lung’ie (Principense Creole). My aim is to answer the following interrelated questions: (i) Is there evidence for diachronic layering of agglutination in the GGCs? (ii) What are the workings that underlie agglutination in the GGCs? (iii) What are the origins of agglutination in the GGCs?
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