1996
DOI: 10.1075/dia.13.1.05muf
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The Founder Principle in Creole Genesis

Abstract: SUMMARYIn this paper, the author discusses one of the aspects of creole genesis from a population genetics perspective, analogizing 'language' with 'population' (rather than 'organism', the tradition in linguistics) and 'linguistic feature' with 'gene'. With language contact analogized to population contact, individual speakers are given a greater role than traditionally accorded them in the literature and variation within language is made more natural. Like genes, linguistic features are shown as competing wi… Show more

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“…Even a cursory glance at de Bies et al's Dictionary of Surinamese Dutch (2009) shows the preponderance of Sranantongo loans and calques. This "standard-settingˮ role, so far, is probably due to a "founder effectˮ (see Mufwene 1996), in which for the longest time, Afro-Surinamese language practices have dominated the linguistic space of Suriname, and which successive waves of "late-comersˮ have adapted to.…”
Section: 3mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Even a cursory glance at de Bies et al's Dictionary of Surinamese Dutch (2009) shows the preponderance of Sranantongo loans and calques. This "standard-settingˮ role, so far, is probably due to a "founder effectˮ (see Mufwene 1996), in which for the longest time, Afro-Surinamese language practices have dominated the linguistic space of Suriname, and which successive waves of "late-comersˮ have adapted to.…”
Section: 3mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Against the received established position in creole linguistics, I have argued in my work (notably Mufwene, 1996Mufwene, , 2001, along with Chaudenson (1992Chaudenson ( , 2001, that the development of creoles starts with the choice of a target language among the languages in contact.…”
Section: Development and Change By Selectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I claim that we know more about the varieties which our practice has presented as "illegitimate offspring" or "children out of wedlock," i.e., Creoles and the indigenized varieties which have attracted most of our attention, than we do about the "legitimate" or "native" varieties (e.g., American or Australian English), which developed putatively according to the expected pattern of filiation (from a single parent) and are assumed to be normal or ordinary offspring (based at least on the language of Hock & Joseph 1996). As in Mufwene (1996aMufwene ( , 1996b,I submit that the same kinds of restructuring processes (as part of the diachrony of a language) are involved in the development of both kinds of varieties, subject to varying ecological conditions, in which new dialect and language contacts play an important role (Mufwene 1996c).2 I continue to assume that, although there is no consensus on how Creoles have developed, what we have learned in discussing them should help us approach the development of other varieties of English more adequately.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%