Screen LibraryThe handbook of Pidgin and Creole studies
Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.:.; A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell handbooks in linguistics
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444305982 |
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Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.:.; A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies.; Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team.; Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 688 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9781444305982 1444305980 9781444305999 (electronic bk.) 1444305999 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | PM7802 |
| CLC: | H004.5-532 |
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Introduction / Properties of Pidgins and Creoles -- Atlantic Creole Syntax / Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability / Pidgin and Creole Morphology / Creole Phonology / Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles / Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles / Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis -- Pidgins/Creoles, and Second Language Acquisition / Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis / Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics / Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview / Creole Studies and Multilingualism / A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation / The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis / The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis / Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation -- Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles / Creoles, Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal / Semantic Evidence in Pidgin and Creole Genesis / Pidgins, Creoles, and Variation / Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages -- The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin and Creole Studies / Pidgins/Creoles and African American English / Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean / Pidgins/Creoles in Society -- Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse / Pidgins/Creoles and Education / Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles / Literary Representations of Creole Languages: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean / |