@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/jpcl.8.1.03bru, author = "Bruyn, Adrienne and Veenstra, Tonjes", title = "The Creolization of Dutch", journal= "Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages", year = "1993", volume = "8", number = "1", pages = "29-80", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.8.1.03bru", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jpcl.8.1.03bru", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0920-9034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "The aim of this article is a systematic investigation of certain grammatical aspects of three languages that came about as by-products of colonial expansion of the Dutch during the seventeenth century: Afrikaans, Negerhollands, and Berbice Dutch. The discussion is centered on three grammatical features that have played an important role either in creolis-tics or in theoretical linguistics: TMA-marking, adpositional phrases, and passive constructions. Since seventeenth-century Dutch is the common lexifier, this language is also taken into account in the overall comparison. It is shown that the three languages related to Dutch form a less homogeneous group than do some of the creoles related to English and French. The main conclusion is that while processes at work during creoli-zation do not have to be uniform and may have different outcomes, the social circumstances existing in the different contact situations constitute a significant factor in the development of the emerging contact languages.", }