Linguistic simplicity and complexity : why do languages undress? /

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

In John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publications since the 1990s have argued that all languages of...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McWhorter, John H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Colección:Language contact and bilingualism ; 1.
Temas:
Complexity (Linguistics)
Second language acquisition.
Languages in contact.
Complexité (Linguistique)
Langue seconde > Acquisition.
Langues en contact.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Creole Languages.
Languages in contact
Second language acquisition
Kreolische Sprachen
Komplexität
Sprache
Sprachkontakt
Komplexität.
Sprachkontakt.
Sprachwandel.
Kreolische Sprachen.
Complexity.
Creole languages.
Pidgin languages.
Language contact.
Kreolspråk.
Andraspråksinlärning.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: I. Creole exceptionalism
  • Introduction to Section I
  • 1. The creole prototype revisited and revised
  • 2.Comparative complexity: What the creolist learns from Cantonese and Kabardian
  • 3. Reconstructing creole: Has "Creole Exceptionalism" been seriously engaged?
  • II. Creole complexity
  • Introduction to Section II
  • 4. Oh, noo!: emergent pragmatic marking from a bewilderingly multifunctional word
  • 5. Hither and thither in Saramaccan Creole
  • 6.Complexity hotspot: The copula in Saramaccan
  • III. Exceptional language change elsewhere
  • Introduction to Section III
  • 7. Why does a language undress? The Riau Indonesian problem
  • 8. Affixless in Austronesian: Why Flores is a puzzle and what to do about it
  • 9.A brief for the Celtic Hypothesis: English in Box 5?

Ejemplares similares