Ebook: How transparent is creole morphology? A study of Early Sranan word-formation

Статья опубликована в Yearbook of Morphology 2003.— pp 81-104.The morphology of creole languages has long been a neglected area of study. One reason for this state of affairs may well have been the wide-spread belief among linguists that creole languages are characterized (among other things) by little or no morphology. Evidence for this belief can be found in many publications, two of which may suffice to illustrate the point. For example, Seuren and Wekker (1986:66) claim that morphology [is] essentially alien to creole languages, and in a recently published textbook on contact languages, we read that [m]ost pidgins and creoles either lack morphology entirely or have very limited morphological resources compared with those of the lexifier and other input languages. (Thomason 2001:168).