Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The Role of Women, Renegades, and People of African and Indigenous Descent in the Emergence of the Colonial Era Creoles

261 Pages·2012·2.281 MB·

by  Nicholas Faraclas

Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages
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Editors
Miriam Meyerhoff Umberto Ansaldo
University of Auckland The University of Hong Kong
Editorial Advisory Board
Mervyn C. Alleyne Pieter Muysken
Kingston, Jamaica Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Marlyse Baptista Peter Mühlhäusler
Ann Arbor, USA Adelaide, Australia
George L. Huttar Shobha Satyanath
Dallas, USA Delhi, India
John Holm John Victor Singler
Coimbra, Portugal New York, USA
Silvia Kouwenberg Norval Smith
Kingston, Jamaica Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Susanne Michaelis Sarah G. Thomason
Leipzig, Germany Ann Arbor, USA
Salikoko S. Mufwene Tonjes Veenstra
Chicago, USA Berlin, Germany
Volume 45
Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages.
The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in
the emergence of the colonial era creoles
Edited by Nicholas Faraclas
Agency in the Emergence
of Creole Languages
The role of women, renegades, and people of
African and indigenous descent in the emergence
of the colonial era creoles
Edited by
Nicholas Faraclas
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Agency in the emergence of Creole languages : the role of women, renegades, and people
of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era Creoles /
edited by Nicholas Faraclas.
p. cm. (Creole Language Library, issn 0920-9026 ; v. 45)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Creole dialects--History. 2. Creole dialects--Africa. 3. African languages--Africa.
4. Languages in contact--Africa. I. Faraclas, Nicholas.
PM7831.A76 2012
417’.22--dc23 2012012726
isbn 978 90 272 5268 5 (Hb ; alk. paper)
isbn 978 90 272 7379 6 (Eb)
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To my sister Mary,
to her love of people and her love of life
Mary Belle Picardi Faraclas
1950–2010

Table of contents
Acknowledgements and list of contributors ix
Abbreviations xi
Marginalized peoples, racialized slavery and the emergence
of the Atlantic Creoles 1
Nicholas Faraclas & Marta Viada Bellido de Luna
African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 41
Pier Angeli LeCompte Zambrana, Lourdes González Cotto,
Diana Ursulin Mopsus, Susana C. De Jesús, Cándida González-López,
Brenda Domínguez, Micah Corum, Aida Vergne & Nicholas Faraclas
Women and colonial era creolization 55
Nicholas Faraclas
Indigenous peoples and the emergence of the Caribbean Creoles 81
Marta Viada Bellido de Luna & Nicholas Faraclas
Linguistic evidence for the influence of indigenous Caribbean grammars
on the grammars of the Atlantic Creoles 111
Marta Viada Bellido de Luna & Nicholas Faraclas
Sociétés de cohabitation and the similarities between the English lexifier
Creoles of the Atlantic and the Pacific: The case for diffusion
from the Afro-Atlantic to the Pacific 149
Nicholas Faraclas, Micah Corum, Rhoda Arrindell & Jean Ourdy Pierre
Influences of Houma ancestral languages on Houma French:
West Muskogean features in Houma French 185
The United Houma Nation with the support of Nicholas Faraclas,
Marie-Françoise Crouch, Diana Ursulin Mopsus, Micah Corum,
Barry Green, Corinne Paulk, Curtis Hendon & Jane Verdin
iii Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages
Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis: Sociétés de cohabitation
and the Founder Principle 215
Candida González López, Lourdes González Cotto,
Pier Angeli LeCompte Zambrana, Micah Corum, Diana Ursulin Mopsus,
Rhoda Arrindell, Jean Ourdy Pierre, Marta Viada Bellido de Luna &
Nicholas Faraclas
References 225
Index 239
Acknowledgements
This work was made possible by a sabbatical leave granted to the editor by the
University of Puerto Rico. Special thanks are due to Linda Myers for her metic-
ulous proofreading of the manuscript and to Barry Lovette Green for his help,
patience and understanding.
List of contributors
Rhoda Arrindell
Micah Corum
Susana C. De Jesús
Brenda Domínguez
Nicholas Faraclas
Lourdes González Cotto
Cándida González López
Pier Angeli Le Compte Zambrana
Jean Ourdy Pierre
Diana Ursulin Mopsus
Aida Vergne
Marta Viada Bellido de Luna
the United Houma Nation