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Roots of Creole structures : weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates /

This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language structure...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Michaelis, Susanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2008.
Colección:Creole language library ; v. 33.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Roots of Creole Structures; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; The problem of multiple substrates; The superstrate is not always the lexifier; In praise of the cafeteria principle; Tense marking and inflectional morphology in Indo-Portuguese creoles; Vowel epenthesis and creole syllable structure; The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan; Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri; On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creole's lexicon; Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole.