Papers by Marlyse Baptista
American speech, May 1, 2024
PAPIA - Revista Brasileira de Estudos do Contato Linguístico, Oct 5, 2014
This paper examines the Tense, Mood, Aspect (henceforth, tma) markers of the Santiago variety of ... more This paper examines the Tense, Mood, Aspect (henceforth, tma) markers of the Santiago variety of Cape Verdean Creole and focuses on the diachronic development as well as the grammaticalization process that a subset of the markers underwent. We propose that some of the variants pertaining to the expression of the present progressive and of anteriority are traceable to Old Portuguese. With regard to the present progressive markers, we start with the uncontroversial assumption that some of the forms are derived from the Portuguese verb estar but also show that this verb has actually undergone grammaticalization in stages and layers. We propose that some of the forms were likely present in the early stages of creole formation and that others appeared later but that in the end, all forms are preserved in the language and conglomerate in a cluster of variants expressing the same semantics. We offer in this paper a quantitative analysis of the variants, emphasizing their frequency rates in our corpus; we then explore the parameters of grammaticalization offered in Heine & Kuteva (2005) to account for the present forms.
The 84th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, St. Louis, MO, 2015
Highlights d Genetic and linguistic variation are compared for the population of Cape Verde d Gen... more Highlights d Genetic and linguistic variation are compared for the population of Cape Verde d Genetic ancestry traces to a combination of Iberian and Senegambian sources d Measures of African genetic and linguistic admixture are positively correlated d Patterns accord with vertical cotransmission of genetic and linguistic variation
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Aug 13, 2012
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Oct 15, 2021
LSA annual meeting extended abstracts, May 7, 2013
This paper examines the Tense, Mood, Aspect (henceforth, tma) markers of the Santiago variety of ... more This paper examines the Tense, Mood, Aspect (henceforth, tma) markers of the Santiago variety of Cape Verdean Creole and focuses on the diachronic development as well as the grammaticalization process that a subset of the markers underwent. We propose that some of the variants pertaining to the expression of the present progressive and of anteriority are traceable to Old Portuguese. With regard to the present progressive markers, we start with the uncontroversial assumption that some of the forms are derived from the Portuguese verb estar but also show that this verb has actually undergone grammaticalization in stages and layers. We propose that some of the forms were likely present in the early stages of creole formation and that others appeared later but that in the end, all forms are preserved in the language and conglomerate in a cluster of variants expressing the same semantics. We offer in this paper a quantitative analysis of the variants, emphasizing their frequency rates in our corpus; we then explore the parameters of grammaticalization offered in Heine & Kuteva (2005) to account for the present forms.
• Focus on the two most distinct varieties of Cape Verdean Creole spoken on the islands of Santia... more • Focus on the two most distinct varieties of Cape Verdean Creole spoken on the islands of Santiago and São Vicente. Varieties in opposition to each other on historical, linguistic, political and cultural grounds. • Synchronic analysis focuses on the Tense Mood Aspect (TMA) system of these two varieties, highlighting their similarities and differences. • Diachronic analysis explores the etymological origins of these forms, the grammaticalization process that they have undergone and reveals traces of some of the founding languages for the Santiago variety.
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Aug 16, 2013
Cape Verdean Creole (henceforth CVC) is spoken in Cape Verde, an archipelago located in the Atlan... more Cape Verdean Creole (henceforth CVC) is spoken in Cape Verde, an archipelago located in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa. The archipelago played a critical role in the slave trade from the 15th to the 19th centuries. The examination of the creole that emerged from the contact between African slaves and Portuguese settlers reveals how grammatical and lexical elements from the source languages have interacted and blended their properties at a morphophonological, syntactic, and lexical levels. Such a study provides valuable insights into the cognitive processes at play when languages come abruptly into contact.
Lingua, Mar 1, 2015
ABSTRACT
Language, 2021
His research interests include world Englishes, sociolinguistics, political discourse, and postco... more His research interests include world Englishes, sociolinguistics, political discourse, and postcolonial pragmatics. Maarten Bedert obtained an MA in African Studies from Ghent University (Belgium) with a research project on the reintegration of ex-combatants in postwar Liberia and an MPhil in African Studies from Leiden University (the Netherlands). His current research focuses on the persistence of local social institutions despite the upheaval caused by the civil war in Liberia (1989-2003). By developing a phenomenological approach to "traditional" idioms like landlord-stranger reciprocity and secrecy, Maarten analyses their meaning as it emerges in a postwar environment.
Language, 2020
In this appendix, I present numerous cases of congruence, as they have been reported in the schol... more In this appendix, I present numerous cases of congruence, as they have been reported in the scholarly literature. The primary objective of this survey is to demonstrate how pervasive the phenomenon is and how widely it has been reported. The secondary objective is to show that particular grammatical domains like tense, mood, and aspect (TMA) markers, highly frequent and salient (but not necessarily transparent), are a privileged site of congruence in Creole grammars. The survey supplements the case studies examined in §3 in the main article and provides the empirical backbone to the model of congruence in Creole genesis I propose there. It represents twenty languages (including the cases described in the main text) across nineteen grammatical, lexical, and phonemic domains. The grammatical domains include tense markers, mood markers, aspect markers, auxiliaries, copulas, negation, passive markers, conjunctions, complementizers, determiners, plural markers, possessives, and causatives. Lexical categories include full nouns, pronouns, adjectives, prepositions, and adverbs. Phonemic inventories have also been reported to be sites of congruence. I report below the congruent features that have been documented in various studies and summarize them in Table 1 (repeated from Table A1 in the main article). The twenty languages featured in Table 1 are Cape Verdean Creole,
Studies in Language, Aug 2, 2005
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Dec 4, 2017
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