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This book presents evidence that Ship English of the early Atlantic colonial period was a distinct variety with characteristic features. It is motivated by the recognition that late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century sailors’ speech was potentially an influential variety in nascent creoles and English varieties of the Caribbean, yet few academic studies have attempted to define the characteristics of this speech. Therefore, the two principal aims of this study were, firstly, to outline the socio-demographics of the maritime communities and examine how variant linguistic features may have developed and spread among these communities, and, secondly, to generate baseline data on the characteristic features of Ship English. The newly-identified characteristics of Ship English detailed here may now serve as an entry point for scholars to integrate this language variety into the discourse on dialect variation in Early Modern English period and the theories on pidgin and creole genesis.

Creole dialects, English --- Social aspects. --- English Creole languages --- Negro-English dialects --- Linguistics

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A autora registra a fala de uma comunidade negra que vive hoje nos subúrbios de Bom Despacho/MG. Trata-se de uma língua peculiar, pois seus falantes a adquirem depois de adultos em rodas de amigos e a utilizam quase que unicamente nos momentos de lazer. Para chegar a essa estrutura linguística, Sônia Queiroz mostra ao leitor bem mais que o falar inusitado de uma comunidade. A autora recupera a história da chegada do negro ao Brasil e, mais especificamente, a Minas Gerais. Para contar a história da língua dos negros da Tabatinga, o livro fala da importância da influência negra na constituição da cultura brasileira. E deixa claro que os legados culturais dos negros não se restringem a influências. Constituem parte fundamental da cultura estabelecida no país.

Black people --- Creole dialects, Portuguese. --- Languages. --- Minas Gerais (Brazil) --- Social life and customs.

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This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier languages. With evidence from creole languages in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific, the book provides new perspectives on creole typology, cross-creole comparisons, and creole semantics. The book offers an introduction for newcomers to the fields of creole studies and phylogenetic analysis. Using these methods to analyse a variety of linguistic features, both structural and semantic, the book then turns to explore old and new questions and problems in creole studies. Original case studies explore the differences and similarities between creoles, and propose solutions to the problems of how to classify creoles and how they formed and developed. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the unity and heterogeneity of creoles and the areal influences on their development. It also provides metalinguistic discussions of the “creole” concept from different perspectives. Finally, the book reflects critically on the findings and methods, and sets new agendas for future studies. Creole Studies has been written for a broad readership of scholars and students in the fields of contact linguistics, biolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language typology, and semantics.

Creole dialects --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Physiological aspects. --- History. --- Theoretical linguistics --- Pidgin and Creole languages --- Contact linguistics --- Language typology --- Historical linguistics

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The Matawai Maroon Johannes King (ca. 1830-1898) taught himself to read and write at an advanced age. He wanted to bridge the gap between the generations by publishing his 'Book of Horrors' ( Skrekiboekoe ) and the present book which has been given the title Life at Marispaston . King wanted to explain the root of the problems between him and his elder brother, Chief Noah Andrai, representatives respectively of the church and the state at the village level. King wanted to justify his life in the eyes of the church, the EBG-Moravian Brethren, and his fellow Maroons. This book is an important contribution to the church history of Suriname, yet also offers insights into the history of the Maroon communities in Suriname. This book is one of the first original works in Sranantongo.

Creole dialects --- Texts. --- King, Johannes, --- Suriname --- Church history. --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- Adiri, --- Surinam --- Republiek Suriname --- Republic of Suriname --- Sūrīnāma --- Surinaam --- Dutch Guiana --- Guiana, Dutch --- Netherlands Guiana --- Guiana, Netherlands --- Netherland Guiana --- Nederlandisch Guyana --- Nederlandsch Guyana --- スリナム --- Surinamu --- オランダ領ギアナ --- Orandaryō Giana --- 蘭領ギアナ --- Ranryō Giana --- Creole dialects. --- Suriname. --- indonesia --- Dan Den --- Efik language --- God --- Granman --- Iowa PBS --- Ndyuka people --- Noah --- Paramaribo --- Poti

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In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective on a multilingual society in the Caribbean and Guianan sphere. Breaking away from the view of bounded ethnicity, the authors address central theoretical issues of multilingual and multicultural societies including ethnicity as a social distinction, identity as the shifting construction of the self and others, and the role of language therein. They discuss the impact of contact and mobilities on language maintenance, expansion and change. Language, mobility and identity in Suriname are observed through the lens of the actors themselves, from the ever-mobile Amerindians and Maroons on the periphery of land and society through expanding urban societies enhanced by recent migration from Haiti, Brazil and China.

Creole dialects --- Languages in contact --- Linguistic change --- Sociolinguistics --- Suriname --- Languages. --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Historical linguistics --- Areal linguistics --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- Creole dialects. --- Language and languages. --- Languages in contact. --- Linguistic change. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Suriname. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Dutch Guiana --- Nederlandisch Guyana --- Nederlandsch Guyana --- Netherland Guiana --- Netherlands Guiana --- Orandaryō Giana --- Ranryō Giana --- Republic of Suriname --- Republiek Suriname --- Surinaam --- Surinam --- Sūrīnāma --- Surinamu --- surinam --- Carib language --- Chinese language --- Dutch language --- Ethnic group --- French Guiana --- Netherlands --- Paramaribo --- Sranan Tongo