Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate

One major research question in creole studies has been whether the social/diachronic circumstances of the creolizaton processes are unique, and if so, whether this uniqueness of the evolution of creoles also leads to unique structural changes, which are reflected in a unique structural profile. Som...

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Auteur principal:	Susanne Maria Michaelis
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Publié:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2020
Sujets:	creole languages creole universals sampling genealogical and areal bias grammaticalization Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:99e6a2b1df7044dd82251aad1c6b18eb2021-12-01T12:13:58ZAvoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate10.5565/rev/isogloss.1002385-4138https://doaj.org/article/99e6a2b1df7044dd82251aad1c6b18eb2020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/100https://doaj.org/toc/2385-4138 One major research question in creole studies has been whether the social/diachronic circumstances of the creolizaton processes are unique, and if so, whether this uniqueness of the evolution of creoles also leads to unique structural changes, which are reflected in a unique structural profile. Some creolists have claimed that indeed the answer to both questions is yes, e.g. Bickerton (1981), McWhorter (2001), and more recently Peter Bakker and Ayméric Daval-Markussen. But these authors have generally overlooked that cross-creole generalizations require representative sampling, especially when working quantitatively. Sampling for genealogical and areal control has been a much discussed topic within world-wide typology, but not yet in comparative creolistics. In all available comparative creoles studies, European-based Atlantic creoles are strongly overrepresented, so that typical features of these languages are taken as “pan-creole” features, e.g. serial verbs, double-object constructions, or obligatory use of overt pronominal subjects. But many of these Atlantic creoles have the same genealogical/areal profile, i.e. European (lexifier) + Macro-Sudan (substrate). I therefore propose a new sampling method that controls for genealogical/areal relatedness of both the substrate and the lexifier, which I call “bi-clan” control (where “clan” is a cover term for linguistic families and convergence areas). Susanne Maria MichaelisUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlecreole languagescreole universalssamplinggenealogical and areal biasgrammaticalizationRomanic languagesPC1-5498Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENIsogloss, Vol 6 (2020)
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spellingShingle	creole languages creole universals sampling genealogical and areal bias grammaticalization Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Susanne Maria Michaelis Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate
description	One major research question in creole studies has been whether the social/diachronic circumstances of the creolizaton processes are unique, and if so, whether this uniqueness of the evolution of creoles also leads to unique structural changes, which are reflected in a unique structural profile. Some creolists have claimed that indeed the answer to both questions is yes, e.g. Bickerton (1981), McWhorter (2001), and more recently Peter Bakker and Ayméric Daval-Markussen. But these authors have generally overlooked that cross-creole generalizations require representative sampling, especially when working quantitatively. Sampling for genealogical and areal control has been a much discussed topic within world-wide typology, but not yet in comparative creolistics. In all available comparative creoles studies, European-based Atlantic creoles are strongly overrepresented, so that typical features of these languages are taken as “pan-creole” features, e.g. serial verbs, double-object constructions, or obligatory use of overt pronominal subjects. But many of these Atlantic creoles have the same genealogical/areal profile, i.e. European (lexifier) + Macro-Sudan (substrate). I therefore propose a new sampling method that controls for genealogical/areal relatedness of both the substrate and the lexifier, which I call “bi-clan” control (where “clan” is a cover term for linguistic families and convergence areas).
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title	Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate
title_short	Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate
title_full	Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate
title_fullStr	Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate
title_full_unstemmed	Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate
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Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate

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