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The emergence of pidgin and Creole languages /
This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple, at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported wit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Morphological Simplicity in Pidgins; 3 Morphological Simplicity and Expansion in Creoles; 4 Sources of Morphological Expansion; 5 Transfer; 6 Constraints on Substrate Influence; 7 Substrate Reinforcement; 8 Predicting substrate influence; 9 Decreolization?; 10 Conclusion; References; General Index.