Studies in Contact Linguistics

The Editors: Linda L. Thornburg holds a B.A. in English literature and an M.A. in English as a foreign language from Southern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Southern California. She has taught at California State University, Fresno; Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor; and at Hamburg University. She has published numerous articles on grammatical reflections of conceptual metonymy, metaphor, and pragmatics with Klaus-Uwe Panther, with whom she is co-editor of Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing (2003).Janet M. Fuller is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University. She completed her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of South Carolina, her M.A. in American studies and ethnology at the Freie Universität Berlin, and her B.A. in anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. Her research interests include language contact and bilinguals (German/English and Spanish/English), sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and gender studies.

«This volume is as much a tribute to language contact studies as to Glenn G. Gilbert and his valuable contributions to the field. As it ranges from, among other things, the voyages of the term ‘criollo’ to processes of transfer in second language acquisition and creole formation, from the roots of African American Vernacular English to the resilience of Low German networks on the Great Plains, and from possessive constructions in Afrikaans to a sociolinguistic typology of language shift in Australia, everybody concerned with multilingualism and language contact is bound to find something of interest. Accessibly written by experts and reflecting current views and debates, this collection will appeal to both specialists and novices in the field.» (Adrienne Bruyn, Past President, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics; Post-doctoral researcher, Radboud University Nijmegen; Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences)«This collection brings the work of a stellar cast of scholars to bear on a wide variety of language contact issues. From pidgins and creoles to German spoken in the United States, the studies span the globe and give contact linguistics a challenging twenty-first-century perspective. A welcome change from the customary festschrift, this anthology holds its own.» (John Lipski, Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University)

• Contents: Peter A. Roberts: The odyssey of criollo – John R. Rickford: The Anglicist / creolist quest for the roots of AAVE: Historical overview and new evidence from the copula – Geneviève Escure: Black / white contacts and the maintenance of identity in Minneapolis African American English: An examination of habitual aspect – Armin Schwegler: Bozal Spanish: Captivating new evidence from a contemporary source (Afro-Cuban «Palo Monte») – Hans den Besten: The origins of the Afrikaans pre-nominal possessive system(s) – Mark L. Louden: Patterns of language maintenance in German American speech islands – William D. Keel: Plattdüütsch and Plautdietsch in western Missouri and Kansas: The resilience of Low German networks on the Great Plains – Joseph C. Salmons/Felecia A. Lucht: Standard German in Texas – Janet M. Fuller: Borrowing trouble: Convergence in Pennsylvania German – Michael Clyne: Some exploratory comments relating sociolinguistic typology to language shift – Donald Winford: Revisiting relexification in creole formation – John H. McWhorter: Revisiting the creole prototype: Signs of antiquity in older languages – Hirokuni Masuda: Microsyntax and macrodiscourse: «Da mistery» in Hawai’i Creole – Michael Aceto: Wrestling with dichotomies in creole studies: Towards a more complete view of language emergence.