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Relabeling in Language Genesis (Hardcover)
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Relabeling in Language Genesis (Hardcover)
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Relabeling is a process that assigns a lexical entry of language-x
a new label derived from a phonetic string drawn from language-y.
This process plays a central role in the formation of contact
languages such as mixed languages, pidgins and creoles, and New
Englishes. In this book, Claire Lefebrve offers a coherent picture
of research on relabeling over the last 15 years, and replies to
the questions that have been directed at the relabeling-based
theory of creole genesis presented in Lefebvre (1998) and related
work. It addresses such questions as: how does relabeling apply
across language contact situations and across lexicons, and what
constraints act upon it? What other processes apply in language
genesis and how do they interact with relabeling? Can a
relabeling-based theory of creole genesis really account for all of
the features that a theory of creole genesis must be able to
account for?
Since relabeling applies to the lexical component of the grammar,
different theories of the lexicon should make different predictions
as to the nature of the lexical items to which the process can
apply. Lefebvre discusses the predictions of a Construction Grammar
framework and how they compare to those of the Principles and
Parameters framework, and how each framework accounts for data. She
analyzes how word order is established within a relabeling-based
account of creole genesis, and the role that relabeling plays in
accounting for the differences between creoles. Other topics
discussed include the contribution of the superstrate language to a
creole within a relabeling-based account of creole genesis, and the
predictions of relabeling in terms of the typological
classification of creoles. Lefebvre ultimately demonstrates how the
relabeling-based theory of creole genesis constitutes a strong
alternative to the Bioprogram Hypothesis.
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