none 10.1075/coll.57.09roj John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 116362601 3546928 2332425 202507022035000008 10.1075 2025-07-02T14:36:11Z 2020-05-15T05:36:39Z 1 2542-7059 10.1075/coll https://benjamins.com/ catalog/coll Norval Smith University of Amsterdam https://ror.org/04dkp9463 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6628-2635 Tonjes Veenstra ZAS https://ror.org/03wz9xk91 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9494-3821 Enoch O. Aboh University of Amsterdam https://ror.org/04dkp9463 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7765-3996 In honour of Pieter Muysken Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-breaking and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as numerous other scholars working on the various facets of this rapidly expanding field. 57 10 29 2020 10 7 2020 9789027207562 9789027260734 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/coll.57 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027260734 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027260734.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/coll.57/html Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia University of Queensland https://ror.org/00rqy9422 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0492-9429 Abstract In this short piece, the so-called ‘Yilan Creole’ spoken in Yilan County, Taiwan (Republic of China) is reanalysed in light of contemporary discussions on mixing and the transparency principle as factors behind the genesis of languages. I argue that there is evidence to conceive the emergence of this vernacular as a case of Atayal+Japanese language mixing (rather than creolisation), whereby a large amount of lexicon, e.g. nouns, verbs, and particles, have been retained maintaining not only their original phonological form, but operating in the original Atayal way, within an all-encompassing Japanese grammar skeleton. In addition, a discussion on the transparency principle as a key factor in the genesis of this mixed language is brought into focus. 10 29 2020 10 7 2020 261 282 10.1075/coll.57.09roj https://benjamins.com/catalog/coll.57.09roj https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/coll.57.09roj/html 10.1075/cll.15.06are 10.1075/cll.15 Variation and Linguistic Theory Bailey 1973 10.1075/cll.15.08bak Bakker , P. , & Muysken , P. C. 1994 . Mixed languages and language intertwining . In Arends , Muysken & Smith ( eds ), 41 – 52 . New Advances in Formosan Linguistics Chien 513 2015 The lexical system of Yilan Creole NINJAL Research Papers Chien 10 1 2016 Yilan Creole case marking 10.1075/jpcl.25.2.11yue Gengo Kenkyu [Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan] Chien 140 73 2011 Taiwan no giran kureouru ni okeru hiteiji: -nay to -ng no henyou o megutte (Negation in Taiwan’s Yilan Creole: Focusing on -nay and -ng) Lecciones de lingüística general Coșeriu 1981 Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach Croft 2000 ВОПРОСЫ ЯЗЫКОЗНАНИЯ Gorbunova 3 2014 The category of phasal polarity in Atayal Грамматическая семантика атаяльского глагола в типологической перспективе Gorbunova 2017 10.4324/9780203085196 10.1515/9781614513711.159 10.1017/CBO9780511612862 Historicity and Variation in Creole Studies Muysken 52 1981 Halfway between Quechua and Spanish: The case for relexification 10.1515/ling.2000.018 10.1017/CBO9780511755026 10.1075/cll.34 10.1075/cll.15.05muy Duelling languages: Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching Myers-Scotton 1993 10.1093/oso/9780198240594.001.0001 The Mixed Language Debate: Theoretical and Empirical Advances Myers-Scotton 73 2003 10.1515/9783110197242.73 What lies beneath: Split (mixed) languages as contact phenomena The Native Languages of South America. Origins, Development, Typology O’Connor 2014 A Preliminary Investigation of Yilan Creole in Taiwan: Discussing Predicate Position in Yilan Creole Qiu 2015 A Grammar of Atayal Rau 1992 Yilan Creole in Taiwan: A Japanese-lexicon creole Sanada 2010 Foundations of Language Seuren 8 2 237 1972 Autonomous versus semantic syntax 10.1163/9789004354296 10.1075/cll.1 10.1016/S0271-5309(03)00013-2 10.1075/cll.15.34smi Smith , N. S. H. 1994 . An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages . In Arends , Muysken & Smith ( eds ), 331 – 374 . The Mixed Language Debate: Theoretical and Empirical Advances Thomason 21 2003 10.1515/9783110197242.21 Social factors and linguistic processes in the emergence of stable mixed languages Language Contact, Creolization and Genetic Linguistics Thomason 1988 10.1525/9780520912793 10.1017/S0267190500000477 10.4159/harvard.9780674434080