Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring - Couverture souple

Sessarego, Sandro

 
9781108987189: Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring

Synopsis

The Afro-Hispanic Languages of the Americas (AHLAs) present a number of grammatical similarities that have traditionally been ascribed to a previous creole stage. Approaching creole studies from contrasting standpoints, this groundbreaking book provides a new account of these phenomena. How did these features come about? What linguistic mechanisms can account for their parallel existence in several contact varieties? How can we formalize such mechanisms within a comprehensive theoretical framework? How can these new datasets help us test and refine current formal theories, which have primarily been based on standardized language data? In addressing these important questions, this book not only casts new light on the nature of the AHLAs, it also provides new theoretical and methodological perspectives for a more integrated approach to the study of contact-driven restructuring across language interfaces and linguistic domains.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sandro Sessarego is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. He works primarily in the fields of contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax and human rights. He has published a number of books on law and linguistics; his most recent one is Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular (2019, Cambridge).

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781108833820: Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring: Volume 168: Aspects of Afro-Hispanic Linguistics

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1108833829 ISBN 13 :  9781108833820
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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