| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 503 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Creole language library,
0920-9026 ;
v. 21
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Creole language library ; v. 21.
0920-9026
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| Note |
Fifteen papers selected from those presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held Jan. 1996 in San Diego, Jan. 1997 in Chicago, and June 1997 in London. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Includes examples in various creole and pidgin languages. |
| Subject |
Pidgin languages -- Congresses.
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Pidgin languages. |
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Creole dialects -- Congresses.
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Creole dialects. |
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Languages in contact -- Congresses.
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Languages in contact. |
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Linguistic change -- Congresses.
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Linguistic change. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
McWhorter, John H.
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Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2000 9781556196683 (DLC) 99048486 (OCoLC)42435071 |
| ISBN |
9789027299482 (electronic book) |
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902729948X (electronic book) |
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1556196687 |
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