Structure and Variation in Language Contact PDF
Edited by Deumert Ana Deumert, Durrleman Stephanie Durrleman
Part of the Creole Language Library series
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This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004.
The contributions reflect - from various perspectives and using different types of data - on the interplay between structure and variation in contact languages, both synchronically and diachronically.
The contributors consider a wide range of languages, including Surinamese creoles, Chinook Jargon, Yiddish, AAVE, Haitian Creole, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Portuguese varieties, Nigerian Pidgin, Sri Lankan Malay, Papiamentu, and Bahamian Creole English.
A need to question and test existing claims regarding pidginization/creolization is evident in all contributions, and the authors provide analyses for a variety of grammatical structures: VO-ordering and affixation, agglutination, negation, TMAs, plural marking, the copula, and serial verb constructions.
The volume provides ample evidence for the observation that pidgin/creole studies is today a mature subfield of linguistics which is making important contributions to general linguistic theory.
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- Pages:386 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:30/11/2006
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- ISBN:9789027293084
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:386 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:30/11/2006
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- ISBN:9789027293084