[en] This article presents two cases of specific language ecologies that emerged
in the South Pacific at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the
twentieth century: Palmerston English, spoken on a remote atoll in the Cook
Islands, and Tayo, a school creole from the Catholic mission of Saint-Louis
in New Caledonia. Both are still spoken and even expanding at present.
Findings from these creoles with English and French lexifiers may be of
interest to studies of German-based contact languages with similar initial
ecologies. Based on the description of the environment where those two
contact languages emerged, we would like to start a discussion about the
parameters that influence the creation of new languages in specific contexts,
such as these languages and Unserdeutsch.
Disciplines :
Langues & linguistique
Auteur, co-auteur :
EHRHART, Sabine ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS)
Co-auteurs externes :
no
Langue du document :
Anglais
Titre :
BRIDGING THE GAP: CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND CREOLE GENESIS
Date de publication/diffusion :
2017
Titre du périodique :
Journal of the Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea
ISSN :
0023-1959
Titre particulier du numéro :
LLM Special Issue 2017 - Language Contact in the German Colonies: Papua New Guinea and beyond
