Done already? A comparison of completive markers in the Gbe languages and Sranan Tongo

Berg, M.C. van den; Aboh, Enoch O.

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“…Creole distinctiveness 411 and Huttar 1994, Bruyn 2003, van den Berg 2007, Aboh 2010b, Bruyn 2009, Yakpo and Bruyn 2014.…”

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“…My answer: While the lexifiers might not involve these constructions, a quick look at works on the substrate languages (e.g. Da Cruz 1995, Winford 2000, Winford and Migge 2007, Durrleman-Tame 2008, and Van den Berg and Aboh 2013 indicates that 'finish'-related TMA markers developed in the creoles as a consequence of cross-linguistic influence. Some Benue-Kwa languages, for instance, involve perfective constructions with 'finish' as illustrated by the Fongbe and Yoruba examples in (3a) and (3b), respectively.…”

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Back to square one? Peter Bakker argues that: "a reduced, simplified contact vernacular that emerged to facilitate communication between different ethnic groups must have preceded the development of the world's creoles" (Bakker 2014: 177). In this creoles-from-pidgins view, the genesis of creoles explains their distinct phenotype: "they share a SET of features that clearly set them apart from the languages of the world" (p. 198). Bakker (2014) further claims that studies that do not adhere to this view but postulate a uniformitarian formal approach to language change and language creation (M. DeGraff) or adopt an ecological perspective to language evolution including creole languages (E. O. Aboh, U. Ansaldo, S. Mufwene) lack empirical coverage (p. 181-183) or rely on a mere recombination of linguistic features that excludes creativity. As Bakker (2014: 183, 184) concludes:Several anti-exceptionalists rely on the feature pool idea, and therefore ascribe zero percent creativity to the builders of the creole. For them, creoles combine features from lexifiers and substrates, and nothing else. That is all […] I really think it is discriminatory to claim that creolizers really could not do anything with the features except (re)combine them. It is an insult to humanity.In the following paragraphs, I first address Bakker's creoles-from-pidgins scenario briefly to show that it is inconsistent with the multilingual contexts in which pidgins and creoles emerge. Second, I address Bakker's (2014: 188) conclusion that creoles form a distinct type, based on findings in Bakker et al. (2011). Third, I answer Bakker's (2014) five questions to anti-exceptionalists showing that they pose no problem to the competition-and-selection model. Fourth, I reply to Bakker's claim that the competition-and-selection model denies creativity to the creole creators.

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“…Creole distinctiveness 411 and Huttar 1994, Bruyn 2003, van den Berg 2007, Aboh 2010b, Bruyn 2009, Yakpo and Bruyn 2014.…”

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“…Ainsi, selon Hubert Devonish, directeur du Jamaica Language Unit de l'University of the West Indies (Jamaïque) : « si l'on veut expliquer de manière simplifiée ce qu'est une langue créole caribéenne, pour un non-spécialiste, on dira que c'est une langue qui est née du contact entre deux groupes de personnes, Européens et Africains, et qui utilise le vocabulaire européen, mais la structure africaine 2 ». Cette structure africaine commune aux créoles caribéens a été repérée pour la première fois par Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain (1937), et depuis largement mise en évidence (Cassidy, 1961 ;Adams, 1991 ;Essegbey, 2004 ;Essegbey, Ameka, 2007 ;Van den Berg, Aboh, 2013).…”

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Done already? A comparison of completive markers in the Gbe languages and Sranan Tongo

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