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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
Otros Autores: Spears, Arthur K. (Arthur Kean), 1943-, Winford, Donald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1997.
Colección:Creole language library ; v. 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
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 ;