The development of the preverbal markers in St-Louis-Creole: The formation of a TMA-system?

Ehrhart, Sabine

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“…5) The transcription system used here is a slightly adapted version of that used by Ehrhart (1993). Although I disagree with aspects of her phonemic analysis (1993:91-105), and in particular with her treatment of nasality, I am not at present in a position to advance a satisfactory alternative.…”

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“…No such comparision is attempted here. Ehrhart (1993) includes as relative subordinators sa, ki, ke, and 0. In her "Esquisse grammaticale" (106-209), she uses a corpus larger than her published "Textes" (210-53), which are mostly narrative discourse produced by two tribal elders.…”

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“…Since Tayo is in contact with French, there are French-influenced varieties used by some native speakers, as well as more or less unstable L2 varieties of Tayo. This apparent continuum of usages has not yet been studied, although Ehrhart (1993) makes a number of useful observations. The present study is based largely on data culled exhaustively from Ehrhart (1993), supplemented (marginally) by my own field notes from 1988.…”

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“…This apparent continuum of usages has not yet been studied, although Ehrhart (1993) makes a number of useful observations. The present study is based largely on data culled exhaustively from Ehrhart (1993), supplemented (marginally) by my own field notes from 1988. Ehrhart's book is based on a large corpus of oral text material, some of which is published therein, and a certain amount of elicited data.…”

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“…It has a lexicon derived principally from (New Caledonian) French, and is known to have emerged in the late 19th/early 20th centuries (Corne 1989b, 1990a, 1990b, Ehrhart 1993). Chronology aside, Tayo is unique among the Creole French languages for a number of other reasons having to do with the settlement history of St-Louis and with the particular dynamic processes which underly its genesis and ongoing evolution.…”

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Relativization and Thematization in Tayo and the Implications for Creole Genesis

Corne

1994

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Relative clauses in Tayo, the French-lexicon Creole of St-Louis (New Caledonia) which emerged in the late 19th century, reflect in their construction and their distribution typically Melanesian patterns, including a subordinator derived from a personal pronoun, sa. Thematization similarly reflects Melanesian strategies, but may also be handled by clefting using a subordinator ki (< French qui). While this construction shows how the lexifier may be modifying Tayo, the emergence of a complex system of relativization and thematization, over three generations after the settlement of St-Louis in 1860, shows that French was not the "motor" of creolization, and suggests that creolization is, in effect, a special case of language shift and creation over some 50 or so years.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Relativization and Thematization in Tayo and the Implications for Creole Genesis

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1994

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Nana K Nana, Nana K Napa

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1995

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A recent study of Tayo shows an obligatory subordinator sa in all relative clauses. The Isle de France dialects, like most other varieties of Creole French, have an obligatory subordinator ki for subject relatives, while ki is optional elsewhere. Reunion Creole has a subordinator ke which is almost always optional, and thus stands out as different from all others in this respect.To explain this oddity, the paper contains the following topical se quence: 1) Reunion Creole relative clauses and the "mysterious" verb marker i with which they interact are described, using data covering nearly three centuries; 2) a highly specific past tense formation is described and discussed; and 3) inferential arguments are advanced, with the addition of data that pertain to both Tayo and Isle de France Creole, to suggest that the anomalous optionality of the relative subordinator in Reunion Creole be came established in the 17th century as a result of Malagasy influence on what is essentially a continuation of 17th century (varieties of) French. Tayo and Isle de France Creole are seen as new creations, new solutions to problems of interethnic communication.

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The development of the preverbal markers in St-Louis-Creole: The formation of a TMA-system?

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Relativization and Thematization in Tayo and the Implications for Creole Genesis

Relativization and Thematization in Tayo and the Implications for Creole Genesis

Nana K Nana, Nana K Napa

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