LINC47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reduplication, Sociolect, Mosquito Coast
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4, p. 106-136 synchronic approach=comparison where the lexicon provides certain evidence b/w superstrate. Lexicon - evidence for similarities between creoles that have the same lexifier language (ex. In early contact situations, creoles started out from pidgins. The vocabulary came from superstrate (lexical source language) b/c the administrations of government in colonization. Therefore, superstrate continued to affect the creole. reinforced in colonies - language of administration. Atlantic creoles was based on different european languages share few words. English-based creole don"t have many shared words as french. few words from languages other than lexical source. Vocabularies differ in form but are similar in terms of kinds of words and change that the words underwent. Common african substratum and restructuring= grammatical base ex. reanalysis of morpheme boundaries common in most creoles. Cf il est => li / le (he is) Morphology= studies the parts of the words that gets attached to have meaning. Pidginization and the lexicon lexicons of early pidgins small.
