Word-formation and creolisation : the case of early Sranan /
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 rece...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tübingen :
Niemeyer,
2009.
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Colección: | Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;
517. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.