| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 282 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
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Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index. |
| Contents |
Pidgins and creoles and linguistics -- Before European expansion -- Early European expansion -- Eighteenth century -- Early nineteenth century -- Van Name -- Schuchardt and his contemporaries -- Hesseling and his contemporaries -- Reinecke and his contemporaries -- Hall and Taylor -- Monogenesis -- Creole continuum -- Universalists again -- Substratists again -- Other trends -- Social factors -- Portuguese-based creoles -- Angolar Creole Portuguese -- Spanish-based creoles -- Papiamentu Creole Spanish -- Dutch-based creoles -- Negerhollands Creole Dutch -- French-based creoles -- Haitian Creole French -- English-based Atlantic creoles -- Jamaican Creole English -- English-based Pacific pidgins and creoles -- Tok Pisin -- Pidgins and creoles based on other languages -- Nubi Creole Arabic -- Lexicosemantics -- Pidginization and the lexicon -- Superstrate sources -- Substrate lexical influence -- Other lexical sources -- Morphological changes -- Semantic changes -- Change of syntactic function -- Phonology -- Continua -- Phonotactic rules -- Oral vowels -- Nasal vowels -- Vowel harmony -- Consonants -- Suprasegmentals -- Syntax -- Verb phrase -- Forms of 'be' -- Serial verbs -- Noun phrase -- Other function words -- Word order. |
| Summary |
This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Creole dialects.
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Creole dialects. |
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Pidgin languages.
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Pidgin languages. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Holm, John A. Introduction to pidgin and creoles. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521584604 0521585813 (DLC) 99023499 (OCoLC)41223947 |
| ISBN |
0511039859 (electronic book) |
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9780511039850 (electronic book) |
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0511153066 |
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9780511153068 |
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0511054122 |
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9780511054129 |
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9781139164153 (electronic book) |
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1139164155 (electronic book) |
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1282388975 |
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9781282388970 |
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0521584604 |
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0521585813 (paperback) |
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9780521584609 |
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9780521585811 |
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