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Language complexity : typology, contact, change /

I examine the ways the minimal lexicon of a pidgin language, Chinook Jargon, gains maximal efficiency when put into use in a contemporary fictional text. The paper first describes the lexicon used from a structural point of view. It then examines the use of multifunctional lexical items in compariso...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Miestamo, Matti, 1972-, Sinnemäki, Kaius, Karlsson, Fred
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Collection:Studies in language companion series ; v. 94.
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