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Sociolinguistic and structural aspects of cameroon creole english.
Based on current data, the book provides a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, with a special focus on aspects that are often used in creolistic literature as putative defining features of bona fide prototypical creoles. It is the first comprehensive resea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Cambridge Scholars Publis,
2016.
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| Edición: | 1st unabridged. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Foreword; Author's Preface; List of Abbreviations and Symbols; Chapter One; 1. Background; 1.1 Objectives; 1.2 Research questions; 1.3 Scope; 1.4 Sociolinguistic, creolistic and structural significance; 1.5 Methodology; 1.6 Structure of the work and highlights; Chapter Two; 2. Introduction; 2.1 Earlier impressionistic views about pidgins and creoles; 2.2 Theories of genesis; 2.3 Defining characteristics of jargons, pidgins, pidgincreoles and creoles; 2.4 Conclusion; Chapter Three; 3. Introduction; 3.1 The origin and developmental itinerary of Cameroon Creole English.
- 3.2 Cameroon Creole English within the sociolinguistic realities of its habitat3.3 Conclusion; Chapter Four; 4. Introduction; 4.1 Is Cameroon Creole English an impoverished offspring of its main lexifier?; 4.2 Is Cameroon Creole English a pidgin or a creole?; 4.3 Cameroon Creole English and the impact of a renewed contact with English, its main lexifier; 4.4 Conclusion; Chapter Five; 5. Introduction; 5.1 An appraisal of the English orthography for Cameroon Creole English; 5.2 An appraisal of a phonetically based orthography.
- 5.3 An orthography that befits the aspects of Cameroon Creole English5.4 Conclusion; Chapter Six; 6. Introduction; 6.1 Phonological Variation; 6.2 Lexical Variation; 6.3 Morphological Variation; 6.4 Syntactic Variation; 6.5 Semantic Variation; 6.6 Conclusion; Chapter Seven; 7. Introduction; 7.1 Cameroon Creole English Vowels; 7.2 The consonant system of Cameroon Creole English; 7.3 Syllable structure; 7.4 Tone and stress; 7.5 Conclusion; Chapter Eight; 8. Introduction; 8.1 Cameroon Creole English verbal system; 8.2 Subordination; 8.3 The structure of Cameroon Creole English simple sentence.
- 8.4 ConclusionChapter Nine; 9. Overview; 9.1 Highlights of the findings; 9.2 Synopsis and the political/pedagogic implications of the findings; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; References; Index.