LINGUIST List 26.4297

Wed Sep 30 2015

Books: Haitian Creole: Valdman

Editor for this issue: Sara Couture <saralinguistlist.org>

Date: 17-Sep-2015
From: Janet Joyce <jjoyceequinoxpub.com>
Subject: Haitian Creole: Valdman
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Title: Haitian Creole
Subtitle: Structure, Variation, Status, Origin
Published: 2015
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
                http://www.equinoxpub.com/

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/haitian-creole-albert-valdman/

Author: Albert Valdman
Hardback: ISBN: 9781845533878 Pages: 494 Price: U.S. $ 125 Comment: £75
Paperback: ISBN: 9781845533885 Pages: 494 Price: U.S. $ 35 Comment: £23.99
Abstract:

Haitian Creole is the creole language with the largest number of speakers: about eight million in Haiti and two million in diaspora communities, in the United States, the Bahamas, Canada, and overseas French departments Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guyana.

Haitian Creole presents a comprehensive view of the structure and development of Haitian Creole. It provides a detailed analysis of the phonology and grammar of the language, and points out key differences between these two fundamental aspects of the language and corresponding features of French. The book contains a detailed description of the productive strategies of vocabulary development, and deals with the origin of the lexicon of Haitian Creole. A signal innovation with regard to other descriptions of the language is the treatment of linguistic variation, both geographical dialects and variation determined by social factors, as well as a presentation of earlier forms of Haitian Creole as attested by texts from the colonial period. Another major contribution is the discussion of language planning issues—the development of an autonomous systematic orthography and the standardization of the language—and related ones concerning the role of HC in education and its status relative to the other officially recognized language of Haiti, French.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                            Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Creole, Haitian (hat)
                            French (fra)

Written In: English (eng)

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