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Why Tetun Prasa is
not a creoleZuzana Grekskov
University of Coimbra, Portugal
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Tetun in Timor-LesteTetun
Tetun Prasa
Tetun Lngua
Franca Tetun Dili
Tetun Terik
TetunFoho/Terik
TetunBelo/Ls
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What is a creole language? Thomason & Kaufman (1988 [1991]), Holm (2004) and
McWhorter (2005)
a language often derived from a pidgin which became a mothertongue of a certain community and is usually spoken in all aspectsof life
arose in a specific sociolinguistic context where more than two
languages were in contact. superstrate language versus substrate languages. vernacular languages that developed mostly throughout the 17th
and the 18th century in former European colonies as a result of alanguage contact between communities that lacked a commonlanguage.
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Sociohistorical backgroundThomason and Kaufman (1991:35): it is the
sociolinguistic history of the speakers, and notstructure of their language, that is the primarydeterminant of the linguistic outcome of languagecontact. [L]inguistic interference is conditionedin the first instance by social factors, not linguistic
ones.
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Origin of Tetun Prasa1) Tetun was diffused by missionaries from the Soibada
mission founded in 18982) Tetun was diffused as a lngua franca from Dili whenthe capital was transferred there from Lifau in 1769
3) It was the tribe of Belos that spoke Tetun and thenexpanded from its original area prior to the 17th
century and came to dominate the eastern part ofTimor (Thomaz 1974, 2002)
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Malay influence
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Portuguese in SE Asia
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Tetun in contact withPortuguese language
Malacca Creole Portuguese (MalCP)
Macau Creole Portuguese (MacCP) European Portuguese (EP) Bidau Creole Portuguese (BidCP)
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Creole in East Timor?
Creole languages were a result of the communicationneeds between two communities that lacked a common
language. This way, a new language a pidgin arose inorder to facilitate their communication. Gradually, thispidgin became a mother tongue of the community and
became a creole. But this was not the case of mixedlanguages.
In Timor-Leste, there was no need to create a new
language for the Portuguese and the Timorese being ableto communicate between each other.
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Tetun Prasa what language is it? Grimes (1997:52):creole = a language that has largely shifted
from its original source. Thomaz (2002:103): a Portuguese-influenced simplified form of
Tetun whose characteristics are close to those of creoles andcompares it to Lngua Geral in Brazil, which was not a creolizedform of Portuguese but rather a language of the Tupi-Guarani
family enriched with Portuguese loanwords (2002:69). Hull (1999:ix):a fully creolized form of Tetun and at the same
time as a hybrid language, basically Austronesian, but with aheavy Portuguese superstratum = English after the Norman
Conquest, which showed the massive French influence it hadundergone.
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Lexicon colloquial speech and media: ratio of Portuguese
borrowings can be as high as 75% for open class words
(Williams-van Klinken & Hajek 2009). informal urban speech, there are only 10 to 20% of
Portuguese loanwords (Williams-van Klinken & Hajek,
2009). In general, the ratio of lexical borrowings correlateswith the level of education and the proficiency in
Portuguese language.
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JBP: Beni, Ita nu'udargrupu dezenvolvimentu agrikultura lokl
saida makprinsipl liu ba Ita atu halo iha fulan ida-ne'e?Beni, what do you, as a part of the local agricultural development group, find the mostimportant to be done this month?
BE: Di'ak, obrigadu batempu,buatimportante mak ita halo noplanu ihafuturu makprimeiru, itasurvei ita-nia rain, rai ne'ebmak atu hala'oagrikultura nian, segundu, ita halo relasaun husu
apoiu ruma baajnsia ne'eb deit makrelevante, atu nune'e beleajuda ita-niagrupu, terseiru, ita tama ba kampu de servisu, ida-ne'e mak importante liu.
Well, thank you for the time. What is important that we do and plan in the future is, first,that we survey the soil that is going to be used for the agriculture, third, we will, most
importantly, do the fieldwork.
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Rezignasaun Xanana foImpaktu baEzekusaunOrsamentu Jeral Estadu 2014.Resignation of Xanana will impact the execution of the General State Budget2014
Esbosu Lei Imprensa Reprezenta Aspirasaun
Komunidade MediaDraft of the Press Laws represents an aspiration of the media community.
Komandu Geral PNTL Lansa Planu Estrategiku
PNTL
PNTL General Command launches a strategic plan for PNTL.
(all examples from Suara Timor Lorosae, February 11th 2014, pgs. 1-3)
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Lexicon in creole languages high number of foreign lexical elements is one of the most
salient characteristic of creole languages = the superstrate
language provides the overwhelming majority (75% to 95%)of a creoles vocabulary.
Tetun Prasa = most of its vocabulary is still native rather
than derived
McWhorter (2005:267): [L]exical mixture itself does notequate with creolization. Languages can borrow massive
amounts of lexicon and even morphology without evidencing
any traits that would suggest the label creole to anylinguist
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Structural featuresMcWhorter (2005:10): three characteristics that distinguish
creole from other languages in terms of structure:
little inflectional morphology no tones
semantically regular derivational morphology.
Languages spoken in Flores and Timor = present a very creole-like features =>McWhorter calls them Nonhybrid
Conventionalized Second-Language varieties NCSLs
(McWhorter 2011:246).
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Possessive constructions1. possessor + POSS (-(ni)nia) + possessum
2. possessum + possessor + POSS (-(ni)nian)
= two factors affecting them: the alienability/inalienability of the possessor
the lexical nature of the possessor (pronominal versus
nominal).
Tetun Terik does not require any possessive marker,
weather the possessor is nominal or pronominal = simple
juxtaposition possessor + possessum (gloss) (Hull &Eccless 2005:36).
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POSS with preposed pronominal possessors
only Tetun Prasa makes use of a possessive marker with
preposed pronominal possessors = possibly influenced by
a creole (Esperana 2001:33) similar construction also found in restructured varieties of
Malay and Portuguese spoken in the region:
Paauw (2008:408): Ambonese Malay (AmbM) - possessive
marker pung, e.g. antua pung rambut = 3S.FORMALPOSS hair her hair.
Hull and Eccles (2005:20) that the possessive marker -nia
used in Tetun Prasa originated indeed in Malay punya andthen assimilated to the 3S personal pronoun.
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POSS with preposed pronominal possessors similar parallel in all Asian varieties of Creole Portuguese,including Malacca CP, Macau CP (Batalha 1959:188) and
Bidau CP.
Baxter (1988:91-93): Malacca CP - two possessive markers:
=> sa: follows the possessor (possessor + sa + possessum)
=> di: precedes the possessor (possessum + di +
possessor) sa is possibly a contracted form of Port. sua 3S.POSS.FEM
= her (Rgo 1998:66) or of Port. vossa/nossa
2S.HON.FEM/1P.FEM = your/our (Baxter 1988:92-93), di
comes from Port. de of, from
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Plural marking1. no plural marking
2. postposing the native definite pluralmarker sira they3. the Portuguese plural markers/-es4. reduplication as found in Malay/Indonesian5. the Tetun Terik plural suffixr/-n
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(1) Hau b sosa fahi1S go buy pig
Im going to buy pigs. (Costa 2015:53)
(2) ema estudante tkniku agrikultura siraperson student technical agriculture PLtechnical students of agriculture (JBP_0005)
(3) ita-nia atividades loroloron ()2S.HON-POSS activity.PL RDP-dayyour everyday activities (JBP_0014)
(4) seluk seseluk (other - others)hotu hotu-hotu (everything everybody)ai-fuan fruit ai-fufuan fruits
(5) ema emar person - peoplebelu belun friend - friends
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Conclusions both sociolinguistic and linguistic aspects
the number of lexical borrowings nor the innovative
grammatical features are determinant = many scholars
believe that the grammar of creole is not necessarily much
different from non-creole languages.
McWhorter (2005:???): creole is not only a linguistic class but
also a sociohistorical one. Thomason and Kaufman (1991:214): we need to interpret
linguistic facts based on social context.
=> Tetun Prasa is indeed a rather unusually complex
contact language/variety which emerged within aheterogenous linguistic context.
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Thank you!Obrigadu barak!