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linguistics --- language contact --- creole languages --- portuguese --- spanish --- pidgins and creoles --- Creole dialects, Portuguese --- Creole dialects, Spanish --- Creole dialects, Portuguese. --- Creole dialects, Spanish. --- Spanish Creole languages --- Portuguese Creole languages

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French language --- Grammar --- Dialectology --- Creole dialects, French --- Seychelles --- -French Creole languages --- -Seychelles --- Creole dialects, French - Seychelles

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This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work. While the papers make independent thematic contributions, they also discuss, augment, present alternatives to, or are inspired in some way by Bickerton's seminal ideas or penetrating analyses. The book is organized into 5 sections.

Creolan languages --- Creole dialects. --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages

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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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Les linguistes spécialistes de l’espace francophone usent depuis plus d’une vingtaine d’années du concept de norme(s) endogène(s) élaboré initialement à partir de situations africaines. La question est de savoir si ce concept peut être étendu à d’autres situations de plurilinguisme, et à quelles conditions. Elle est posée depuis les aires franco-créolophones que sont les DOM, dans une démarche de confrontation avec d’autres situations de francophonie (Wallonie romane, Côte d’Ivoire, Louisiane, Maghreb). L’observation attentive de ces situations de contact révèle une permanente activité de brouillage et de négociation des lignes frontières antérieurement posées. Partant, les auteurs de cet ouvrage avancent que l’heure est davantage aux appartenances multiples qu’à une allégeance à une norme unique ; mais aussi, que la langue doit s’appréhender en termes de projet négociable, et non plus d’objet préconstruit, c’est-à-dire d’essence. La question des normes endogènes ou plus exactement du processus de leur production s’actualise alors non pas à partir d’une langue artificiellement coupée de son milieu écologique, mais à partir de ce qui se parle, un vernaculaire marqué par le plurilinguisme, même si les valeurs assignées aux différentes formes linguistiques demeurent, quant à elles, inscrites dans une sémiotique résolument discrète et socio-historiquement marquée.

Creole dialects, French --- French language --- Multilingualism --- Languages in contact --- Language and languages --- French Creole languages