World-Wide Comparative Evidence for Calquing of Valency Patterns in Creoles

Journal of Language Contact

Susanne Maria Michaelis^1¹ 

[1] Leipzig University and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena)^1

关键词: Creole languages;    comparative creole approach;    calquing of substrate patterns;    bi-clan sampling;   

DOI  :  10.1163/19552629-20190001

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Brill

【 摘 要 】

Creole languages consistently show valency patterns that cannot be traced back to their lexifier languages, but derive from their substrate languages. In this paper, I start out from the observation that a convincing case for substrate influence can be made by adopting a world-wide comparative approach. If there are recurrent matches between substrate and creole structures in a given construction type, in creoles of different world regions and with different substrates, then we can exclude the possibility of an accident, and substrate influence is the only explanation. The construction types that I will look at are ditransitive constructions (Section 3), weather constructions (Section 4), experiencer constructions (Section 5), and motion constructions (Section 6). I will draw on the unique typological data source from the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (Michaelis et al ., 2013a; 2013b). My conclusion is that the data provided in AP i CS support the claim that during creolization, valency patterns have been systematically calqued into the nascent creoles.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC