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SUMMARY:Marlyse Baptista, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:“Social and Linguistic Factors in the Formation of Creole Pr
onominal Paradigms”\n\nPidgin and Creole languages typically emerge in m
ultilingual settings and result from the multiple\, complex social facto
rs and linguistic processes that participate in language emergence\, dev
elopment and change. The original creolophones' diverse linguistic backg
rounds account for the unavoidable variability in the input to Pidgins a
nd Creoles and make it necessary to consider variation as one of their i
nherent attributes (Meyerhoff\, 2021).\n\nMarlyse Baptista first present
s a socio-historical overview of Upper-Guinea Creoles in this presentati
on\, focusing on the original populations and languages in contact. She
then discusses a range of complex processes involved in Creole genesis\,
including substratal transfer (Siegel\, 2008)\, restructuring (Neumann-
Holzschuh &\; Schneider\, 2000) feature recombinations (DeGraff\, 199
9\; Mufwene\, 2001\; Aboh\, 2015)\, and the role of feature congruence i
n the formation of Creole functional categories.\n\nUsing the Pattern an
d Matter Mapping model or PMM (Baptista\, 2020)\, she examines diachroni
c (Schuchardt\, 1880) and synchronic data that compare the pronominal sy
stem of Upper Guinea Creoles' diverse source languages on both the Afric
an (Wolof and Mandinka) and European (Portuguese) sides to those Creoles
today. A careful comparative analysis of the forms\, functions and dist
ribution of the pronouns (featuring both atonic single subject pronouns
and double tonic/atonic subject pronouns) in the source languages will r
eveal 1) the precise connections between them and the resulting Creoles\
, 2) to what extent the observable properties are congruent in the langu
ages in contact\, and 3) to what extent they diverge and innovate.\n\nIn
light of the complex picture of Creole emergence drawn by this presenta
tion\, she will present the work of lab members Burgess et al. (2024)\,
suggesting concrete guidelines and recommendations in the way that Creol
es are discussed and introduced to students of linguistics\, anthropolog
y\, psychology\, and other fields.\n\nFor more details: https://events.l
a.psu.edu/event/dr-marlyse-baptista-university-of-pennsylvania/
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nguistic Factors in the Formation of Creole Pronominal Paradigms”
Pidgin and Creole languages typically emerge in multilingual settings a
nd result from the multiple, complex social factors and linguistic proce
sses that participate in language emergence, development and change. The
original creolophones' diverse linguistic backgrounds account for the u
navoidable variability in the input to Pidgins and Creoles and make it n
ecessary to consider variation as one of their inherent attributes (Meye
rhoff, 2021).
Marlyse Baptista first presents a socio-historical o
verview of Upper-Guinea Creoles in this presentation, focusing on the or
iginal populations and languages in contact. She then discusses a range
of complex processes involved in Creole genesis, including substratal tr
ansfer (Siegel, 2008), restructuring (Neumann-Holzschuh & Schneider,
2000) feature recombinations (DeGraff, 1999; Mufwene, 2001; Aboh, 2015)
, and the role of feature congruence in the formation of Creole function
al categories.
Using the Pattern and Matter Mapping model or PMM (
Baptista, 2020), she examines diachronic (Schuchardt, 1880) and synchron
ic data that compare the pronominal system of Upper Guinea Creoles' dive
rse source languages on both the African (Wolof and Mandinka) and Europe
an (Portuguese) sides to those Creoles today. A careful comparative anal
ysis of the forms, functions and distribution of the pronouns (featuring
both atonic single subject pronouns and double tonic/atonic subject pro
nouns) in the source languages will reveal 1) the precise connections be
tween them and the resulting Creoles, 2) to what extent the observable p
roperties are congruent in the languages in contact, and 3) to what exte
nt they diverge and innovate.
In light of the complex picture of C
reole emergence drawn by this presentation, she will present the work of
lab members Burgess et al. (2024), suggesting concrete guidelines and r
ecommendations in the way that Creoles are discussed and introduced to s
tudents of linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and other fields.
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p>For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr
-marlyse-baptista-university-of-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:102 Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
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