Pidgin and Creole Languages: A Basic Introduction

Alan S. Kaye Et Al.

ISBN 10 : 389586031X ISBN 13 : 9783895860317

Editeur : LINCOM, 2001

Synopsis

A Basic Introduction Alan S. Kaye (California State University, Fullerton) & Mauro Tosco (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli) This is a short textbook conceived of as a meaty supplement for introductory linguistic students. It is designed to whet their appetites yielding an appreciation of the general field of languages in contact. The tome is particularly sensitive to the processes and stragegies of pidginization and creolization, and offers data based on the authors' fieldwork on Arabic pidgins and creoles of East Africa (the Ki-Nubi of Kenya and Uganda) and the southern Sudan (the city of Juba on the Nile). Theories of the origin of pidgins are discussed as well as the evolution of pidgins into creoles and the phenomenon known as decreolization. A major force of this volume is a focus on the relevance of pidginistics and creolistics for general and genetic linguistics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LINCOM
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 389586031X
• ISBN 13: 9783895860317
• Reliure: Reliure inconnue
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible