Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles / edited by John McWhorter.
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TextLanguage: English, Multiple languages Series: Creole language library ; v. 21.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 503 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789027299482
- 902729948X
- Pidgin languages -- Congresses
- Creole dialects -- Congresses
- Languages in contact -- Congresses
- Linguistic change -- Congresses
- Pidgin languages -- Congresses
- Creole dialects -- Dialects -- Congresses
- Languages in contact -- Congresses
- Linguistic change -- Congresses
- Pidgins (Langues) -- Congrès
- Langues créoles -- Dialectes -- Congrès
- Langues en contact -- Congrès
- Changement linguistique -- Congrès
- Langues en contact -- Congrès
- Changement linguistique -- Congrès
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General
- Creole dialects
- Languages in contact
- Linguistic change
- Pidgin languages
- Syntax
- Morphologie Linguistik
- Substrat Linguistik
- Sprachliche Universalien
- Sprachwandel
- Sprachkontakt
- Taalverandering
- Taalcontact
- Creooltalen
- Pidgintalen
- Kreolische Sprachen
- Pidgin-Sprachen
- Kreolisch-Französisch
- Kreolisch-Portugiesisch
- Kreolisch-Spanisch
- Kreolisch-Englisch
- 417/.22 21
- PM7801 .L36 2000
- 18.96
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Includes examples in various creole and pidgin languages.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
LANGUAGE CHANGE AND LANGUAGE CONTACT IN PIDGINS AND CREOLES; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Preface; Verb Movement in four Creole Languages: A Comparative Analysis; Notes on Componential Diffusion in the Genesis of the Kabuverdianu Cluster; "High" Kwéyòl: The Emergence of a Formal Creole Register in St. Lucia; From Latin to Early Romance: A Case of Partial Creolization?; The Creole Verb: A Comparative Study of Stativity and Time Reference; Are Creole Languages "Perfect" Languages?; The Origin of the Syntax and Semantics of Property Items in the Surinamese Plantation Creole.
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a w.
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