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Title Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on contact languages / edited by Magnus Huber, Viveka Velupillai.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 32
Creole language library ; v. 32. 0920-9026
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Maintenance or assimilation? Phonological variation and change in the realization of /t/ by by British Barbadians / Michelle C. Braña-Straw -- Universal and substrate influence on the phonotactics and syllable structure of Krio? / Malcolm Awadajimn Finney -- Tone of quantifiers in Saramaccan as a transferred feature from Kikongo / Marvin Kramer -- Morphophonological properties of pitch accents in Jamaican Creole reduplication / Shelome Gooden -- Effort reduction and the grammar: liquid phonology in Haitian and St. Lician / Eric Russel Webb -- Reflexivity in Capeverdean: predicate properties and sentence structure / Marie Alexandra Fiéis, Fernanda Pratas -- An additional pronoun and hierarchies in lower Columbia Chinúk Wawa / David D. Robertson -- Three irregular verbs in Gullah / David B. Frank -- Afro-Bolivian Spanish: the survival of a true creole prototype / John M Lipski -- Copula patterns in Hawai'i Creole: Creole origin and decreolization / Aya Inoue -- On the properties of Papiamentu pa: sychronic and diachronic perspectives / Claire Lefebvre, Isabelle Therrien -- No exception to the rule: the tense-modality-aspect system of Papiamentu reconsidered / Nicholas Faraclas, Yolanda Rivera-Castillo, Don E. Walicek -- A look at so in Mauritian Crole: from possessive pronoun to emphatic determiner / Diana Guillemin -- Chinese Spanish in 19th- century Cuba: documenting sociohistorical context / Don E. Walicek -- Comparitive perspectives on the origins, development and structure of Amazonian (Karipúna) French Creole / Jo-Anne S. Ferreira, Mervyn C. Alleyne.
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Subject Creole dialects.
Creole dialects.
Languages, Mixed.
Languages, Mixed.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Huber, Magnus.
Velupillai, Viveka, 1974-
Other Form: Print version: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on contact languages. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007 (DLC) 2007028073
ISBN 9789027292018 (electronic book)
9027292019 (electronic book)
9789027252548 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9027252548 (hardback ; alkaline paper)