Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to MemoryUniversity of the West Indies Press, 1999 - 279 páginas Offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad, addressing the experience of Africans in Trinidad and examining the nature of their social and linguistic heritage as it was modified and discarded in the European-dominated island community. Explains linguistic structures, analyzing Trinidad Yoruba as a distinct dialect of African Yoruba, and discusses the creolization process. Includes a Yoruba lexicon. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Conteúdo
Introduction | 1 |
Part | 15 |
FirstGeneration Trinidad Yoruba Society | 34 |
Language Attitudes of Second and ThirdGeneration | 54 |
Names and Ritual | 73 |
Part | 97 |
Syntax | 116 |
Lexicon | 140 |
Language Recession within a Creolized Context | 173 |
Creolization Processes in Broader Perspective | 188 |
Trinidad Yoruba Lexicon in Alphabetical Order | 215 |
Notes | 237 |
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African languages ancestors baba bọ British calabash Caribbean cassava chants child colonial Congo CONT context Creole Languages cultural Dahomey dance dára deity dialects Diego Martin divination drum Egba Ekiti emph English Creole Eshu eşin ethnic Etyma European factors flour French Creole function greeted Hausa honorific Ibadan ijó ilé immigrants indentured informants island Jamaica KiKongo language death lexemes lexical lexicon linguistic lọ male marker mother mwè names nasal nineteenth century Ogun Olorun ọmọ oní oral orisha orisha ceremonies Osain person phonological phrases pounded yam pre-V PROG pronoun religious ritual semantic sentences serial verb Shango Sierra Leone slave social song speakers syntactic term tion tonal tone Trinidad Yoruba Tunapuna University variants vowel Warner-Lewis West Indies words Yaraba Yoruba language Yoruba town Yorubaland