Creole studies : phylogenetic approaches /

This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier language...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bakker, Peter, 1959- (Editor ), Birchsenius, Finn (Editor ), Sippola, Eeva (Editor ), Levisen, Carsten (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Temas:
Creole dialects > Physiological aspects.
Creole dialects > History.
Typology (Linguistics)
Biolinguistics.
Typologie (Linguistique)
Biolinguistique.
Biolinguistics
Creole dialects
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Key concepts in the history of creole studies
  • 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics
  • 4. Methods
  • 5. Creole typology I
  • 6. Creole typology II
  • 7. West African languages and creoles worldwide
  • 8. The typology and classification of French-based creoles
  • 9. The simple emerging from the complex
  • 10. Dutch creoles compared with their lexifier
  • 11. Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles
  • 12. Afro-Hispanic varieties in comparison
  • 13. Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes
  • 14. Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary
  • 15. The semantics of Englishes and Creoles
  • 16. Feature pools show that creoles are distinct languages due to their special origin
  • 17. Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics
  • 18. From basic to cultural semantics
  • 19. Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so even more in the future, including in the field of creolistics.

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