M i x e d L a n g u a g e s;
15 Case Studies in Language Intertwining
Peter Bakker en Maarten Mous (eds.)
(STUDIES OF LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE USE 13)
This is the first published collection of papers on mixed languages. Mixed
languages are languages with a grammatical system from one language and a
lexicon from another. This excludes pidgins, creoles, and code-switching, as
well as heavy borrowing. All authors have first hand experience with the
language they discuss. The languages cover a time period of almost four
millennia. Over 20 languages are dealt with, from Africa, the Americas,
Asia, Europe and the Middle East: Amarna-Akkadian, Callahuaya, Copper Island
Aleut, Ilwana, Island Carib, Javindo, KiMwani, Ma'a/Mbugu, Maltese, Media
Lengua, Michif, Petjo, eight Romani (Gypsy) mixed dialects, Shelta, and Town
Frisian. The papers go into questions such as: How are the languages mixed
structurally? How did they come into being? What social factors are
responsible for their genesis? This collection is of great interest for
historical linguists, creolists, code-mixing researchers and other language
cont act specialists.
CONTENTS
Peter Bakker & Maarten Mous - Introduction
Peter Bakker - Michif, the Cree-French mixed language of the Metis buffalo
hunters in Canada
Norbert Boretzky & Birgit Igla - Romani Mixed Dialects
Cor van Bree - The development of so-called Town Frisian
A.J. Drewes - Borrowing in Maltese
Evgenij Golovko - Mednyj Aleut or Copper Island Aleut: an Aleut-Russian
mixed language
Anthony Grant - Shelta: the secret language of Irish Travellers viewed as a
mixed language
Miel de Gruiter - Javindo, a contact language in pre-war Semarang.
Berend Hoff - Island Carib, an Arawakan language which incorporated a
lexical register of Cariban origin, used to address men.
Maarten Kossmann - Amarna-Akkadian as a mixed language
Maarten Mous - Ma'a or Mbugu
Pieter Muysken - Media Lengua
Pieter Muysken - Callahuaya
Derek Nurse - South meets North: Ilwana3D Bantu + Cushitic on Kenya's Tana
River.
Hadewych van Rheeden - Petjo: the mixed language of the Indos in Batavia.
Thilo C. Schadeberg - KiMwani at the southern fringe of KiSwahili
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