Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey: Reference Survey v. 2 (Cambridge Language Surveys)

Holm, John A.

ISBN 10: 0521350891 / ISBN 13: 9780521350891

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Published by Cambridge University Press in 1989, this is the first hardback PRINBTING OF John Holm's Pidgins and Creoles: Volume II Reference Survey. Black and gilt cloth binding, illustrations the book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey: Reference Survey v. 2 (Cambridge Language Surveys)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521350891
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521350891
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

An overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This second volume of John Holm's Pidgins and Creoles provides an overview of the socio-historical development of each of some one hundred known pidgins and creoles. Each variety is grouped according to the language from which it drew its lexicon - Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, English, African and other languages. John Holm convincingly demonstrates the historical and linguistic reasons for this organisation, which also enables the reader to perceive with ease the interrelationship of all varieties within each group. The section devoted to each variety provides a discussion of its salient linguistic features and presents a brief text, usually of connected discourse, with a morpheme-by-morpheme translation. Readers thus have access to data from all known pidgins and creoles in the world, and the volume provides possibly the most comprehensive reference source on pidginization and creolization yet available. The emphasis of John Holm's first volume was on linguistic structure and theory. Each volume can be read independently, but together the two volumes of Pidgins and Creoles provide a major survey of current pidgin and creole linguistics which lays new foundations for research in the field.