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E.V. Bobyleva
E.V. Bobyleva
Capaciteitsgroep Taalwetenschap Universiteit van Amsterdam
Capaciteitsgroep Slavische talen en culturen Universiteit van Amsterdam


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About my project

The title of my research project is The development of nominal functional categories in creoles. Towards an integral model of creole genesis. The research project is both empirical and theoretical in its nature. It incorporates a comparative analysis of the nominal functional category items (determiners, plural markers and demonstratives) in 10 creoles (English-based Jamaican and Tok Pisin/Bislama, French-based Haitian and Mauritian/Seychellois, Portuguese-based Cape Verdean and Sãotomense, Dutch-based Berbice Dutch and Afrikaans and Spanish-based Papiamentu and Palenquero) contrasted to the parallel data from their source languages, i.e. substrates and superstrates. The goal of this comparative analysis is to investigate how the discourse-semantic features and morphosyntactic representations of the nominal functional categories in the substrate and superstrate languages combine in creoles; and to what extent such combinations can be predicted from the typological properties of these languages or, otherwise, the principles of the UG.Based on the evaluation of the role of substrate/superstrate influence and UG-based principles in the creole structural development a new integral model of creole genesis will be suggested. This model should be capable to reveal the tendencies governing the emergence of the attested feature combinations as well as to establish the constraints that ban the occurrence of the potentially possible, but unattested feature combinations.

 

 

 

Presentations

  • Nominal functional categories in Atlantic Creoles. A comparative approach to creole genesis, Anéla / GAL International Junior Research Meeting, 25.01.2007, Groningen
  • On the status of dem in Jamaican creole [joint paper with E.O.Aboh], TIN-dag, 03.02.2007, Utrecht
  • Creole genesis: what it can tell us about the language faculty, 27.04.2007, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
  • Question Words in four Atlantic creoles: Where do they come from? Creole Grammar Workshop, coorganized by Groupe de Recherche sur les Grammaires Créoles, UMR SLF, Univesité Paris-8 and ACLC, Language Creation Group, 06.04.2007, Paris
  • New insights into the mesolect. Variation in the plural marking of Jamaican Creole, International conference of Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, 18-20.07.2007, Amsterdam
  • Typology of plural marking in creoles, NAP-dag, Amsterdam, 21.09.2007
  • Multiplicity and collectivityin the plural marking strategies of Jamaican Creole, Workshop “Plurality, Unity, and Structure in Semantics”,03.10.2007, Université Paris III.

Publications

  • 2007. Determiner phrase in Atlantic Creoles. A comparative approach to creole genesis. Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 77. 125-135.
  • to appear. On the status of intra-creole variation of substrate- and superstrate-derived plural markers. Canadian Journal of Linguistics special issue on creole morphology
  • In preparation. New insights into the mesolect. Variation in the plural marking of Jamaican Creole.

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