Structure And Variation in Language Contact - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 9027252513 ISBN 13 : 9789027252517

Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2006

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9027252513
• ISBN 13: 9789027252517
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 386
• Éditeur: Deumert Ana, Durrleman Stephanie