caa a22 4500 388114940 CHVBK 20180307125404.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1040820700002468 doi S1040820700002468 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1040820700002468 Buccini Anthony F. University of Chicago Department of Linguistics 1010 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 [ab21@midway.uchicago.edu] Dutch, Swedish, and English Elements in the Development of Pidgin Delaware [Elektronische Daten] [Anthony F. Buccini] This paper investigates the influence of Dutch, Swedish, and English on the syntax of Pidgin Delaware, a contact language used in the Middle Atlantic region in the seventeenth century. Arguments are presented against Thomason's (1980) view that the pidgin predated European contact; instead, the structures of the pidgin are viewed from the perspective of Dutch speakers attempting to learn the Delaware language. The theoretical framework of Van Coetsem 1988 is used to explain which Algonquian features were successfully acquired by the Dutch and where the Dutch imposed features from their native language in the early, formational stage of the pidgin. In addition, subsequent changes in Pidgin Delaware are attributed to its use by Swedish and English speakers. Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1999 American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures Cambridge University Press 11/1(1999), 63-87 1040-8207 11:1<63 1999 11 JGL https://doi.org/10.1017/S1040820700002468 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1040820700002468 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Buccini Anthony F. University of Chicago Department of Linguistics 1010 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 [ab21@midway.uchicago.edu] NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures Cambridge University Press 11/1(1999), 63-87 1040-8207 11:1<63 1999 11 JGL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge