Traces of superstrate verb inflection in Makista and other Asian-Portuguese creoles

Nunes, Mário Pinharanda

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“…Section 3 outlines the theoretical framework and the points of view within creolistics that have informed this study. There is an argument in the literature over whether creoles, no matter where they are spoken and which substrates they have, are a typologically distinct category of human languages (see Bakker et al, 2011;McWhorter, 2001McWhorter, , 2005McWhorter, , 2018Parkvall, 2008), or whether the particular languages spoken by those who first created the creoles played a role in the development of the resulting grammar (see DeGraff, 2003;Pinharanda-Nunes, 2012;Siegel, 2008). As MP is spoken in Malaysia, Malay has been involved in both the creation of the grammar and further influence on it throughout its history.…”

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The Transmission of Substrate Features

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2020

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Theories of the formation of creole syntax have been proposed to explain whether substrates and superstrates influence the resultant creole structures, and if so, what the mechanisms are by which they influence them. Using the framework of feature transfer, this study investigates features in Malacca Portuguese (MP), a Portuguese-based creole spoken in Malaysia. Citing grammatical characteristics such as aspect particles, I investigate similarities between features in MP and Malay, and how these similarities could have transferred from Malay to a Portuguese lexical item to create a grammatical words in MP.. I also discuss short/long variation in personal pronouns, as well as other features such as TAM markers and auxiliaries, and investigate how they have come about from a partial feature transfer from Malay. I propose that in this particular case a substrate has affected creole syntax, and provide evidence of how this has occurred. While a much more substantial exploration of this phenomenon is essential, I put forth a hypothesis about how the short/long distinction in pronouns functions in MP.

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