Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The Role of Women, Renegades, and People of African and Indigenous Descent in the Emergence of the Colonial Era Creoles PDF
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Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages Creole Language Library (CLL) A book series presenting descriptive and theoretical studies designed to add significantly to the data available on pidgin and creole languages. All CLL publications are anonymously and internationally refereed. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/cll Editors Miriam Meyerhoff Umberto Ansaldo University of Auckland The University of Hong Kong Editorial Advisory Board Mervyn C. Alleyne Pieter Muysken Kingston, Jamaica Nijmegen, The Netherlands Marlyse Baptista Peter Mühlhäusler Ann Arbor, USA Adelaide, Australia George L. Huttar Shobha Satyanath Dallas, USA Delhi, India John Holm John Victor Singler Coimbra, Portugal New York, USA Silvia Kouwenberg Norval Smith Kingston, Jamaica Amsterdam, The Netherlands Susanne Michaelis Sarah G. Thomason Leipzig, Germany Ann Arbor, USA Salikoko S. Mufwene Tonjes Veenstra Chicago, USA Berlin, Germany Volume 45 Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages. The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles Edited by Nicholas Faraclas Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles Edited by Nicholas Faraclas Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Agency in the emergence of Creole languages : the role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era Creoles / edited by Nicholas Faraclas. p. cm. (Creole Language Library, issn 0920-9026 ; v. 45) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Creole dialects--History. 2. Creole dialects--Africa. 3. African languages--Africa. 4. Languages in contact--Africa. I. Faraclas, Nicholas. PM7831.A76 2012 417’.22--dc23 2012012726 isbn 978 90 272 5268 5 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 7379 6 (Eb) © 2012 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa To my sister Mary, to her love of people and her love of life Mary Belle Picardi Faraclas 1950–2010 Table of contents Acknowledgements and list of contributors ix Abbreviations xi Marginalized peoples, racialized slavery and the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 1 Nicholas Faraclas & Marta Viada Bellido de Luna African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 41 Pier Angeli LeCompte Zambrana, Lourdes González Cotto, Diana Ursulin Mopsus, Susana C. De Jesús, Cándida González-López, Brenda Domínguez, Micah Corum, Aida Vergne & Nicholas Faraclas Women and colonial era creolization 55 Nicholas Faraclas Indigenous peoples and the emergence of the Caribbean Creoles 81 Marta Viada Bellido de Luna & Nicholas Faraclas Linguistic evidence for the influence of indigenous Caribbean grammars on the grammars of the Atlantic Creoles 111 Marta Viada Bellido de Luna & Nicholas Faraclas Sociétés de cohabitation and the similarities between the English lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic and the Pacific: The case for diffusion from the Afro-Atlantic to the Pacific 149 Nicholas Faraclas, Micah Corum, Rhoda Arrindell & Jean Ourdy Pierre Influences of Houma ancestral languages on Houma French: West Muskogean features in Houma French 185 The United Houma Nation with the support of Nicholas Faraclas, Marie-Françoise Crouch, Diana Ursulin Mopsus, Micah Corum, Barry Green, Corinne Paulk, Curtis Hendon & Jane Verdin iii Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis: Sociétés de cohabitation and the Founder Principle 215 Candida González López, Lourdes González Cotto, Pier Angeli LeCompte Zambrana, Micah Corum, Diana Ursulin Mopsus, Rhoda Arrindell, Jean Ourdy Pierre, Marta Viada Bellido de Luna & Nicholas Faraclas References 225 Index 239 Acknowledgements This work was made possible by a sabbatical leave granted to the editor by the University of Puerto Rico. Special thanks are due to Linda Myers for her metic- ulous proofreading of the manuscript and to Barry Lovette Green for his help, patience and understanding. List of contributors Rhoda Arrindell Micah Corum Susana C. De Jesús Brenda Domínguez Nicholas Faraclas Lourdes González Cotto Cándida González López Pier Angeli Le Compte Zambrana Jean Ourdy Pierre Diana Ursulin Mopsus Aida Vergne Marta Viada Bellido de Luna the United Houma Nation
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