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Title: | The role of substrate transfer in the development of grammatical morphology in language contact varieties | Contributor(s): | Siegel, Jeff (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | DOI: | 10.3366/word.2015.0080 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19393 | Abstract: | This article shows how the psycholinguistic process of language transfer accounts for the many features of the grammatical morphology of language contact varieties that differ from those of their lexifiers. These include different grammatical categories, the use of contrasting morphological processes to express grammatical distinctions, lexifier grammatical morphemes with new functions, and new grammatical morphemes not found in the lexifier. After an introductory description of the general notion of language transfer, it presents five more specific types: transfer of morphological strategies, word order and grammatical categories, as well as direct morphological transfer and functional transfer. The article then gives some possible explanations for the distribution among different types of contact varieties of two kinds of functional transfer - functionalisation and refunctionalisation - and for the distribution of particular types of grammatical morphemes - i.e. free versus bound. The examples presented come from contact languages of the Australia-Pacific region: three creoles (Australian Kriol, Hawai'i Creole and Tayo); an expanded pidgin (Melanesian Pidgin, exemplified by Vanuatu Bislama and Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin); a restricted pidgin (Nauru Pidgin); and an indigenised variety of English (Colloquial Singapore English). | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Word Structure, 8(2), p. 160-183 | Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1755-2036 1750-1245 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470409 Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax) 470406 Historical, comparative and typological linguistics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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