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The meaning of ‘European’. The challenge of high-contact varieties for linguistic taxonomy
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This article addresses the multiplicity of criteria involved in linguistic labeling, in particular with regard to the establishment of genetic taxonomies, and points out the largely extralinguistic considerations often involved in the resulting classifications and terminology. The matter of genetic classification is particularly complex when dealing with highcontact varieties, as their typological traits are likely to unveil the influence of a number of (often unrelated) ancestral languages. An analysis of the Portuguese-lexified creoles of Asia, in particular the Diu variety of Indo-Portuguese, not only makes it clear that applying the ‘European’ label to them is only weakly supported by typological evidence but can have detrimental consequences with respect to the languages’ social embedding in modern Asian societies as well as their maintenance. All these factors considered, it is suggested that linguists apply taxonomical labels only sparsely and clearly motivate their use, demonstrating sensitivity to the social echoes and possible implications of their terminology.
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Cardoso, Hugo C. 2008. ‘The meaning of ‘European’. The challenge of high-contact varieties for linguistic taxonomy’. Sophia Journal of European Studies 1: 31-54