A02
Speaker's choices in a creole context: Bislama and Morisien
The project investigates situation-specific individual linguistic variation and its contribution to the expression of social meaning in creole language communities. It deals with Bislama, an English-based creole spoken in Vanuatu and Kreol Morisien, a French-based creole spoken in Mauritius. Inspired by the speaker-centered approach of the CRC, the project will focus on the creativity of individual speakers and employ novel experimental techniques. It will relate situational and social meaning aspects with particular linguistic features and will also be concerned with the formation of new registers in spoken and written language.
Members
Project leader
Members
Carol Aru
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Cooperation Partner
Publications & Presentations
Lima, Suzi; Veenstra, Tonjes (2021) Complex structures in Brazilian Indigenous languages In: Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas [DOI] [ViVo] Aboh, E.; Smith, N.; Veenstra, Tonjes (2020) Advances in contact linguistics[DOI] [ViVo] Veenstra, Tonjes (2020) Introduction In: Advances in contact linguistics [DOI] [ViVo] Veenstra, Tonjes (2021) Speakers’ Choices in Creole Contexts: The Mauritian Case In: Forschungskolloquium Romanistik, U. Hamburg [ViVo] Veenstra, Tonjes (2021) Rich Agreement in creoles and register-sensitivity In: International Conference on New Issues in Language Contact Studies , Università degli Studi dell’Aquila [ViVo] Veenstra, Tonjes (2021) Tribute to Pieter Muysken In: International Conference on New Issues in Language Contact Studies , Università degli Studi dell’Aquila [ViVo] Henri, Fabiola; Veenstra, Tonjes (2021) Focus-sensitive Alternations in the Indian Ocean In: Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft [ViVo] Veenstra, Tonjes (2021) Register-sensitivity in creole grammars In: SPCL Summer conference, INALCO Paris [ViVo] Meyerhoff, Miriam; Aru, Carol; Veenstra, Tonjes (2021) Changes in plural marking in Bislama In: Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages: virtual winter meeting [ViVo]
Publications
2021
2020
Presentations
2021
Contact
+49 30 20192 400
krifka@leibniz-zas.de