Spanish‐Based Creoles in the Caribbean

Lipski, John Μ.

doi:10.1002/9781444305982.ch22

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“…In Portuguese, the stress in verbs is assigned by morphology and is predictable (Wetzels 2007). If we assume that Portuguese, French, and Spanish-based creoles generalize the infinitive as the verb stem (Lipski 2008;McWhorter 2011: 87), we would expect a final prominence in verbs. Traill and Ferraz (1981: 208) claim that some "verbs seem to have been derived from Portuguese infinitives, while others are from third person forms.…”

Section: Verbsmentioning

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Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two?

Agostinho

Hyman

2021

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Creole languages have generally not figured prominently in cross-linguistic studies of word-prosodic typology. In this paper, we present a phonological analysis of the prosodic system of Lung’Ie or Principense (ISO 639-3 code: pre), a Portuguese-lexifier creole language spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe. Lung’Ie has produced a unique result of the contact between the two different prosodic systems common in creolization: a stress-accent lexifier and tone language substrates. The language has a restrictive privative H/Ø tone system, in which the /H/ is culminative, but non-obligatory. Since rising and falling tones are contrastive on long vowels, the tone must be marked underlyingly. While it is clear that tonal indications are needed, Lung’Ie reveals two properties more expected of an accentual system: (i) there can only be one heavy syllable per word; (ii) this syllable must bear a H tone. This raises the question of whether syllables with a culminative H also have metrical prominence, i.e. stress. However, the problem with equating stress with H tone is that Lung’Ie has two kinds of nouns: those with a culminative H and those which are toneless. The nouns with culminative H are 87% of Portuguese origin, incorporated through stress-to-tone alignment, while the toneless ones are 92% of African origin. Although other creole languages have been reported with split systems of “accented” vs. fully specified tonal lexemes, and others with mixed systems of tone and stress, Lung’Ie differs from these cases in treating African origin words as toneless, a quite surprising result. We consider different analyses and conclude that Lung’Ie has a privative /H/ tone system with the single unusual stress-like property of weight-to-tone.

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Section: Verbsmentioning

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Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two?

Agostinho

Hyman

2021

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“…The Afrogenesis Hypothesis has not found much acceptance among linguists (e.g. Lipski 2000Lipski , 2005Díaz-Campos & Clements 2005etc.). Even though McWhorter's effort to provide a unified framework to account for creole genesis has generally been praised (cf.…”

Section: The Lack Of Spanish Creoles On the Mainlandmentioning

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Afro-Peruvian Spanish

Sessarego

2015

Creole Language Library

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“…Lipski 2000Lipski , 2005Díaz-Campos & Clements 2005, 2008etc.). Even though McWhorter's effort to provide a unified framework to account for creole genesis has generally been praised (cf.…”

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Afro-Peruvian Spanish in the context of Spanish Creole Genesis

Sessarego¹

2014

SiC

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This study presents linguistic and sociohistorical data on Afro-Peruvian Spanish (APS), an Afro-Hispanic dialect spoken in the province of Chincha (coastal Peru) by the descendants of the slaves taken to this region to work on sugarcane plantations in the seventeenth century. The present work provides new information on the origin of APS. In so doing, it casts new light on the genesis and evolution of Afro-Hispanic languages in the Americas and shows that, in light of recent works on the nature of Venezuelan, Ecuadorian and Bolivian slavery (Díaz-Campos & Clements 2008; Sessarego 2013a, 2014), colonial coastal Peru did not represent a “canonical breeding ground” (McWhorter 2000,7) for a creole language to form.

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Spanish‐Based Creoles in the Caribbean

Cited by 30 publications

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Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two?

Word Prosody in Lung’Ie: One System or Two?

Afro-Peruvian Spanish

Afro-Peruvian Spanish in the context of Spanish Creole Genesis

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