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For review see: Silvia Kouwenberg, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 3 & 4 (1996); p. 369-371.
This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work. While the papers make independent thematic contributions, they also discuss, augment, present alternatives to, or are inspired in some way by Bickerton's seminal ideas or penetrating analyses. The book is organized into 5 sections, each a reflection of a major research period in Bickerton's career: Section 1: Identifying Creoles; Section 2: Language Variation; Section 3: Creole Processes; Section 4: Creole Syntax and Semantics; Section 5: Serial Verbs.
For review see: Peter Bakker, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 1 & 2 (1996); p. 190-192.
This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole which is widely spoken as a first language in Guinea-Bissau. The study focuses on one variety, 'central Kriyol', and its main aim is to present a complete description of the grammar of the language. The theoretical framework for the syntactic analysis is purposely eclectic but relies primarily on Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and ample attention is paid to the cognitive or semantic dimension in the explanation of linguistic facts. After a short introduction on the history and phonology of the language and the organization of the study, there are chapters dealing with the simple sentence, Tense and Aspect, the noun phrase, the complex sentence, topicalization/focalization/questions, and Middles/Passives/Causatives. The final chapter discusses Kriyol texts, especially comic-books, from which a considerable number of examples used in the study are taken.
Ben Elugbe u. Tayo Bankale: Cognation Percentages in Benue-Congo-Implications for Internal Classification / Larry Hyman: Why Describe African Languages? / H. Ekkehard Wolff: Segments and Prosodies in Chadic-On Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy, Historical Reconstructions, and the Status of Lamang-Hdi / Oluseye Adesola: Coda Deletion in the Yoruba Loan Phonology / Akinbiyi Akinlabi u. Alexander Iwara: Transparency and Opacity in Lokaa Vowel Harmony / Michael Cahill: Marked Tones and Texture-The Necessity of High Tones in K°Anni / Bruce Connell: Pitch Realization of Questions and Statements in Mambila / Yoshihito Dobashi: Phonological Phrasing in Sandawe / Laura J. Downing: Constraint and Complexity in Subsegmental Representations / Alexander Iwara: The Grammatical Function of Tone on Lokaa / Rose O. Aziza: Negation in Southwestern Edoid-The Case of Urhobo / Christa Beaudoin-Lietz, Derek Nurse u. Sarah Rose: Pronominal Object Marking in Bantu / Stefan Elders: Distributed Predicative Syntax in Doyayo-Constituent Order Alternations and Cliticization / Zygmunt Fraijzyngier u. Mohammed Munkaila: Point of View of the Subject as a Grammatical Category / Jason Kandybowicz: Predicate Clefts, Derivations, and Universal Grammar / Roland Kiessling: "The giraffes burst throw emerge climb pass through the roof of the hut"-Verbal Serialisation in the West Ring Languages (Isu, Weh, Aghem) / Zelealem Leyew: The Cardinal Numerals of Nilo-Saharan Languages / Michael R. Marlo: Prefixal Reduplication in Lusaamia-Evidence from Morphology / Philip W. Rudd: "Haya, Basi" "Okay so" Markers of Management and Interaction in Swahili Conversation / Josephat M. Rugemalira: Locative Arguments in Bantu / Ken Safir: On Person as a Model for Logophoricity / Ronald P. Schaefer u. Francis O. Egbokhare: Emai Contact Constructions: Beyond Verbs in Series / Helga Schröder: The Relevance of Verbal Morphology in Toposa Discourse / Anne Storch: Traces of a Secret Language-Circumfixes in Hone (Jukun) Plurals / Weldu Michael Weldyesus: Locative Predication in Tigrinya / Tunde Adegbola: Probabilistically Speaking: A Quantitative Exploration of Yorùbá Speech Surrogacy / Rachélle Gauton, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver u. Linkie Mohlala: A Corpus-based Investigation of the Zulu Nominal Suffix -kazi - A Preliminary Study / Wanjiku Nganga: Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation-Kiswahili Nouns / Koen Bostoen: The Vocabulary of Pottery Fashioning Techniques in Great Lakes Bantu-A Comparative Onomasiological Study / Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche: Reconstruction of Initial Velar and Labial-Velar Consonants at the Pre-Lower Cross-Igboid-Yoruboid-Edoid Stage of Benue-Congo / Henry Tourneux: Évolution Morphologique et syntaxique du parler des jeunes "Kotoko" de Goulfe (Cameroun) / Kay Williamson: Implosives in Mande-Atlantic-Congo / Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum: Bantu Gender Revisited through an Analysis of Basaá Categories-A Typological Perspective / Herman M. Batibo: The Role of the External Setting in Language Shift Process-The Case of the Nama-Speaking Ovaherero in Tshabong / Paul D. Fallon: The Best is Not Good Enough-Scouring a Previously Documented Language for More / Aurélia Ferrari: Le sheng: Expansion et Vernacularisation d'une Variété Urbaine Hybride à Nairobi / Helene Fatima Idris: The Status and Use of African Languages versus Arabic in Sudan-A Sociolinguistic Survey in Nyala, Darfur / H.R.T. Muzale: Developing a Language in a Complex Situation: Prospects and Challenges of Tanzanian Sign Language / Francis O. Oyebade u. T.O. Agoyi: The Endangered Status of Marginalised Languages-Sosan and Ùkuè as Case Study / Solomon Oluwole Oyetade: Language Endangerment in Nigeria-Perspectives with the Akpes Cluster of Akoko Languages / Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter: Contact de Langues au Brésil-les Langues Africaines et le Portugais Brésilien / Eno-Abasi E. Urua: Language Marginalization-the Lower Cross Experience