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Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles /

This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
Otros Autores: McWhorter, John H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2000.
Colección:Creole language library ; v. 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a w.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 503 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027299482
902729948X
ISSN:0920-9026 ;