Book contents
- The Lingua Franca
- Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
- The Lingua Franca
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Author
- 3 The Dictionnaire
- 4 The Orthography
- 5 The Lexicon
- 6 The Word Formation
- 7 The Inflection
- 8 The Syntax
- 9 The Lingua Franca
- Book part
- References
- Index
9 - The Lingua Franca
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2021
- The Lingua Franca
- Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
- The Lingua Franca
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Author
- 3 The Dictionnaire
- 4 The Orthography
- 5 The Lexicon
- 6 The Word Formation
- 7 The Inflection
- 8 The Syntax
- 9 The Lingua Franca
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
The preceding chapters have shown that, in spite of the commonly accepted classification of LF as a pidgin, a close scrutiny of the variety recorded in the Dictionnaire reveals a number of non-pidgin-like characteristics. The present chapter considers the place of the Dictionnaire’s LF in the taxonomy of outcomes of language contact. Revisiting the key structural features of this variety of LF, it shows that, while some of the features are consistent with a pidginization account of its origin, others receive a more convincing explanation within the framework of koineization. Following a background discussion of the issue in Section 9.1, Section 9.2 focuses on the structural characteristics of LF which may be attributed to pidginization processes, and Section 9.3 on those which are attributable to koineization. Section 9.4 concludes the chapter, and the book, by discussing the view of LF as a structural continuum ranging from basilectal lects, more typical of speakers with non-Romance linguistic backgrounds, to acrolectal ones, more typical of speakers of Romance languages.
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- The Lingua FrancaContact-Induced Language Change in the Mediterranean, pp. 286 - 336Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021