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Prerequisites:
Instructor
Dhanis Jaganauth
Room
Lecture Hours:
2 hours per week
Tutorials
1 hour per week
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Course
Objectives:
To help you to understand some of the main issues in the
field of Creole Linguistics.
(ii) To develop your ability to debate these issues (as
stated in the academic literature).
(iii) To develop your ability to conduct your own fieldwork
with a view to answering simple but significant research
questions relevant to Creole Linguistics.
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Areas
To Be Covered
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Basic concepts and issues:
Creolisation, pidginisation.
Issues of origin: monogenesis, polygenesis, the language
bioprogramme hypothesis.
2. Linguistic features of Atlantic and Indian Ocean
Creoles: lexicosemantics, phonology syntax
3. Potential sources of Atlantic Creole features:
-from lexically-related European languages (particularly
18th century regional dialects) and/or
-from West African languages.
4. Use of language data to determine small patches of
Caribbean Creole language history:
i. Berbice Dutch Creole; ii. Jamaican Maroon Spirit
Language.
5. A re-examination of the issue of origin in light
of information in language data, historical data, and
sociolinguistic theory (notably “Acts of Identity).
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Research
Papers - Group Tasks:
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Identify the major linguistic
features of Creole languages using samples of texts
from a range of Creole languages, including Berbice
Dutch and Jamaican Maroon Spirit Language.
ii) Prepare, in detail, the historical background of
the two languages to be examined.
iii) Identify an issue or a hypothesis that you would
like to explore.
iv) Prepare fieldwork proposals related to exploring
this issue in the relevant languages.
v) Post-fieldwork discussion and final preparation of
project reports.
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Evaluations:
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One short research paper
(40%)
One final 2-hour exam (60%)
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