LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lexifier, Newfoundland English, Grammaticalization
27 Oct 2017
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Contact languages: mixed languages, lingua frances, pidgins, creoles. These are used (cid:449)he(cid:374) people ha(cid:448)e to interact on a regular basis. English is a lingua franca of business in many parts of the world: speakers will sometimes choose a colonial language for certain purposes because it does(cid:374)"t favour one group over another. Note, too, that some linguists do(cid:374)"t grant pidgins language status and refer to them instead as (cid:862)communication systems(cid:863). Children of pidgin speakers, however, develop a rule-based language called a creole. Interestingly, creoles look very much alike wherever you go despite arising in varying situations with different lexifiers: consider a couple of examples. These sentences are referring to a building that has a clock and a thermometer on one of its sides. Pidgin: building high place wall part time now time and then now temperature every time give you. O the pro(cid:374)ou(cid:374) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:449)e(cid:863) is (cid:862)(cid:373)ipela(cid:863), i. e. , plural (cid:373)es.
