LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Relexification, Trans Man, Chinook Jargon
8 Feb 2018
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Power relations are often reflected in language (observation that they existed allowed us to overcome them) La(cid:374)guage does(cid:374)"t defi(cid:374)e the so(cid:272)ial group you belong to. Lexifier: tend to be socially prestigious language in the context of the situation. In pidgins- the more prestigious language (often european: the language that provides the majority of the lexicon in a contact language, french-based creole, english-based creole. Creole: when a generation of children receive a pidgin as their primary input, creoles have function words and syntactic rules, like all full-fledged languages, pidgins are impoverished, creoles are not, pidgins are not native languages, creoles are. Chinook jargon: native to canada, originated as a trade language of the pacific northwest (19th and 20th centuries, chinook wawa (spoken in oregon) is a creole. Properties of creole languages: lexicon, few prepositions, pronouns derived from emphatic forms in the lexifier, phonology, open syllables, morphology, simple, no polysynthesis, syntax, tend not to have a copula.
