Creole genesis, attitudes and discourse : studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato

429 Pages·1999·2.902 MB·English

by  John R Rickford, Suzanne Romaine, Charlene J Sato

CREOLE GENESIS, ATTITUDES AND DISCOURSE
CREOLE LANGUAGE LIBRARY (CLL)
A companion series to the
“JOURNAL OF PIDGIN & CREOLE LANGUAGES”
Editors
Jacques Arends (Amsterdam)
John Victor Singler (New York)
Editorial Advisory Board
Mervyn Alleyne (Kingston, Jamaica) John Holm (New York)
Norbert Boretzky (Bochum) Salikoko Mufwene (Chicago)
Lawrence Carrington (Trinidad) Pieter Muysken (Leiden)
Chris Corne (Auckland) Peter Mühlhäusler (Adelaide)
Glenn Gilbert (Carbondale, Illinois) Pieter Seuren (Nijmegen)
George Huttar (Dallas) Norval Smith (Amsterdam)

Volume 20
John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine (eds)
Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse
CREOLE GENESIS,
ATTITUDES AND
DISCOURSE
STUDIES CELEBRATING CHARLENE J. SATO
Edited by
JOHN R. RICKFORD
Stanford University
SUZANNE ROMAINE
University of Oxford

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Creole genesis, attitudes and discourse : studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato / edited by John R.
Rickford, Suzanne Romaine.
p. cm. -- (Creole language library, ISSN 0920-9026 ; v. 20)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Creole dialects. 2. Pidgin languages. I. Rickford, John R., 1949. II. Romaine, Suzanne, 1951-
III. Sato, Charlene J. IV. Series.
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1951–1996

Table of Contents
Part A
Introduction
Preface 3
JohnR.RickfordandSuzanneRomaine
Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996): Biography and Bibliography 11
SuzanneRomaineandJohnR.Rickford
Writings in Hawai’ian English: “Hawai’ian Air”, “Checking the Kauai
Sands after Hurricane Iniki”, and “4 Eva” 17
EricChock
YMCA: The Weightroom 19
DarrellH.Y.Lum
Part B
Pidgin-CreoleGenesisandDevelopment
Pidgins and Language Mixture 31
DerekBickerton
The TMA System of Hawaiian Creole and Diffusion 45
SarahJulianneRoberts
Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Evidence for a

Maritime Polynesian Jargon or Pidgin 71
EmanuelJ.Drechsel
Copula Patterns in Atlantic and Non-Atlantic Creoles 97
JohnHolmetal.
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Skeletons in the Closet: Anomalies in the Behavior of the Saramaccan
Copula 121
JohnMcWhorter
Variation in the Jamaican Creole Copula and its Relation to the
Genesis of AAVE: New Data and Analysis 143
JohnR.Rickford
Accountability in Descriptions of Creoles 157
SalikokoS.Mufwene
On the Possibility of Afrogenesis in the Case of French Creoles 187
MikaelParkvall
Chinese-Cuban Pidgin Spanish: Implications for the Afro-creole
Debate 215
JohnM.Lipski
Monogenesis Revisited: The Spanish Perspective 235
ArminSchwegler
Part C
AttitudesandEducationinCreoleCommunities
Changing Attitudes towards Australian Creoles and Aboriginal English 265
DianaEadesandJeffSiegel
Reactions to Bu: Basilect Meets Mesolect in Hawai’i 279
JosephE.Grimes
Changing Attitudes to Hawai’i Creole English: Fo’ find one good job,
you gotta know how fo’ talk like one haole 287
SuzanneRomaine
Mutual Intelligibility?: Comprehension Problems between American
Standard English and Hawai’i Creole English in Hawai’i’s Public
Schools 303

SusanBauderReynolds
Beyond Grammar: Teaching English in an Anglophone Creole
Environment 323
VelmaPollard
TABLEOFCONTENTS ix
Part D
CreoleDiscourseandLiterature
On the Marking of Temporal Sequencing in Vernacular Liberian
English 337
JohnVictorSingler
Temporal Frames in Spoken Papiamentu Discourse 353
RogerW.Andersen
Exploration of the Trinary Components in Creole Discourse:
Universals, Substrata, and Superstrata 373
HirokuniMasuda
Comprehension and Resonance: English Readers and English Creole
Texts 391
LiseWiner
Name Index 407
Language Index 411
Subject Index 415