| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 309 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Linguistische Arbeiten,
0344-6727 ;
517
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Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 517.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309). |
| Contents |
Frontmatter; Table of contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Creolisation and word-formation: some central issues; 3 The socio-historical and demographic background of Early Sranan; 4 Methodology; 5 Early Sranan word-formation: establishing a descriptive framework; 6 Multifunctionality of lexical items in Early Sranan; 7 Concatenative patterns; 8 Reduplication patterns; 9 The emergence of Early Sranan word-formation: a conclusion; Backmatter. |
| Summary |
This book presents a comprehensive account of the word-formation patterns of an Englishbased creole language, Sranan, as found in the earliest sources of this language, and compares them systematically with the patterns attested in the input languages. The findings are discussed in the light of recent creolisation theories and a number of important conclusions are drawn about the nature of creole word-formation, as well as about the role of second language acquisition, universals, substrates and superstrates in the emergence of the creole lexicon and creole languages in general. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sranan language -- Word formation.
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Sranan language. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word formation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Braun, Maria, 1973- Word-formation and creolisation. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2009 9783484305175 (OCoLC)232333510 |
| ISBN |
9783484970229 (electronic book) |
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3484970227 (electronic book) |
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9783484305175 |
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3484305177 |
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