The structure and status of pidgins and creoles : including selected papers from the meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics /
Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to c...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©1997.
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Colección: | Creole language library ;
v. 19. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole terminology and contact language typology (Section One); a requestioning of process and evolution in pidginization, creolization, and other language conta. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 461 pages) : illustrations, map |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789027275851 9027275858 1283327805 9781283327800 9786613327802 6613327808 |
ISSN: | 0920-9026 ; |