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SUMMARY:Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages - Dr Oliver 
 Mayeux (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20201022T153000Z
DTEND:20201022T170000Z
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CONTACT:Tim Laméris
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 ABSTRACT*\nCreoles\, like any other language\, are subject to change over 
 time. \nTypically\, discussion of how creole languages change has been con
 fined to the creolistics-specific framework of 'decreolization'. \nDecreol
 ization posits a reversal of the creolization process\, such that \ncreole
 s revert to lexifier structures through contact. This talk \npresents the 
 results of a diachronic corpus analysis of Louisiana \nCreole\, a critical
 ly endangered French-lexifier creole in intensive \ncontact with French an
 d English. These data challenge the traditional \ndecreolization account. 
 Creoles are found to be subject to the same \nprocesses of language contac
 t and change as any other language\, \nsuggesting that creolists ought to 
 move beyond the subfield-specific \ndecreolization framework.  Doing so ca
 n shed new light on creoles and pidgins\, as well as languages and dialect
 s in contact.
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