Book review

Rivera Castillo, Yolanda. 2022. A Description of Papiamentu, a Creole Language of the Caribbean Area. Leiden: Brill.

Authors

  • Bart Jacobs Jagiellonian University Krakow

Abstract

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References

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Parkvall, Mikael. 2008. The simplicity of creoles in a cross-linguistic perspective. In Matti Miestamo, K. Sinnemäki, & F. Karlsson (eds), Language Complexity. Typology, Contact, Change, 265–285. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.94.17par

Parkvall, Mikael. 2012. Papiamentu as one of the most complex languages in the world. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27(1): 159-166. https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.27.1.05par DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.27.1.05par

Rivera Castillo, Yolanda. 1998. Tone and stress in Papiamentu: The contribution of a constraint-based analysis to the problem of Creole genesis. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13(2): 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.13.2.04riv DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.13.2.04riv

Rivera Castillo, Yolanda, & Pickering, Lucy. 2004. Phonetic correlates of tone and stress in a mixed system. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 19(2): 261-284. https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.19.2.02riv DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.19.2.02riv

Rivera Castillo, Yolanda, & Wagner Rodríguez, Camille. 2016. PaSSCo (Papiamentu Spontaneous Speech Corpus). University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Published

2025-03-30

How to Cite

Jacobs, B. (2025). Book review: Rivera Castillo, Yolanda. 2022. A Description of Papiamentu, a Creole Language of the Caribbean Area. Leiden: Brill. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 11(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.548

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