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Article: Wayward daughter: Language contact in the emergence of Pichi (Equatorial Guinea)
Title | Wayward daughter: Language contact in the emergence of Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Multilingual Creolization Hispanic Substrate Language change |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.degruyter.de/journals/jall |
Citation | Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2013, v. 34 n. 2, p. 275-299 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Pichi is an Afro-Caribbean English Lexifier Creole spoken by some 150’000 people on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. Pichi is an offshoot of Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with its West African sister languages. However, insulation from English and Krio, extensive contact and hybridization with Spanish, language shift involving the Bantu language Bubi, as well as koineization through the prolonged coexistence of Pichi with closely-related languages like Nigerian Pidgin and Cameroonian Pidgin have given the language a character distinct from that of the other English Lexifier creoles of the region. The study of Pichi and its comparison with other West African AECs therefore offers fresh insights into the role that language contact has played in the differentiation of the Afro-Caribbean English lexifier Creoles. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/194809 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.272 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Yakpo, K | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-17T02:11:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-02-17T02:11:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2013, v. 34 n. 2, p. 275-299 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0167-6164 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/194809 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Pichi is an Afro-Caribbean English Lexifier Creole spoken by some 150’000 people on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. Pichi is an offshoot of Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with its West African sister languages. However, insulation from English and Krio, extensive contact and hybridization with Spanish, language shift involving the Bantu language Bubi, as well as koineization through the prolonged coexistence of Pichi with closely-related languages like Nigerian Pidgin and Cameroonian Pidgin have given the language a character distinct from that of the other English Lexifier creoles of the region. The study of Pichi and its comparison with other West African AECs therefore offers fresh insights into the role that language contact has played in the differentiation of the Afro-Caribbean English lexifier Creoles. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | De Gruyter Mouton. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.degruyter.de/journals/jall | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of African Languages and Linguistics | en_US |
dc.rights | The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com | - |
dc.subject | Multilingual | - |
dc.subject | Creolization | - |
dc.subject | Hispanic | - |
dc.subject | Substrate | - |
dc.subject | Language change | - |
dc.title | Wayward daughter: Language contact in the emergence of Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Yakpo, K: kofi@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Yakpo, K=rp01715 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1515/jall-2013-0009 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84889769069 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 227890 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 34 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 275 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 299 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000327745500002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Germany | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0167-6164 | - |