Malacca Creole Portuguese: Sociolinguistic History Before the Twentieth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004758209)

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Malacca Creole Portuguese: Sociolinguistic History Before the Twentieth Century

$259.00

Malacca Creole Portuguese: Sociolinguistic History Before the Twentieth Century

$259.00
Format: Hardcover
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This study addresses a longstanding gap in our knowledge of Malacca Creole Portuguese during the Portuguese, Dutch, and early British colonial periods, while opening new avenues for further research. Drawing on contemporary documents, published sources, and rare linguistic materials, it presents a coherent account of the emergence of the creole under Portuguese rule and its subsequent shaping and persistence during the Dutch and British periods. Historical sociolinguistic parallels between Batavia and Malacca allow a reconstruction of the creole's form in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unpublished nineteenth-century documents further reveal the profile of the creole-speaking community in the 1880s and enable a comparative analysis of the language in 1883.

Author: Alan Norman Baxter
ISBN-10: 9004758208
ISBN-13: 9789004758209
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/23/2026
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.69d
By Alan Norman Baxter
By Alan Norman Baxter
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Alan Norman Baxter, Ph.D. (1985), Australian National University, is a retired Professor of Linguistics of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He has published articles, book chapters and monographs including A grammar of Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese), (Pacific Linguistics, 1988); and (co-authored with Patrick de Silva) A Dictionary of Kristang - English, (Pacific Linguistics, 2004).

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