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Structure and variation in language contact /

This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect - from various perspectives and using different types of data - on the interplay between structure and variation in contact lang...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Deumert, Ana, Durrleman, Stephanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2006.
Colección:Creole language library ; v. 29.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Structure and Variation in Language Contact; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Introduction; Structure; The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan; Tracing the origin of modality in the creoles of Suriname1; Modeling Creole Genesis; The restructuring of tense/aspect systems in creole formation; Syntactic properties of negation in Chinook Jargon, with a comparison to two source languages; Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax; Sri Lanka Malay; The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for proven or putative relexified languages; Variation.